Category Archives: Pere-X

My Spring 2024 trip to China

March 20 – May 6
I’m REALLY excited about going to China again!
I hope to see a lot of friends and colleagues while I am there!

Map of Peter's trip
Click on the photo to open it. Then you will be able to enlarge as desired.

Here is my current schedule:
March 20: Fly from Denver to Dallas/FortWorth
transfer to flight headed to Shanghai Pudong Airport
March 21: Arrive in Shanghai
March 21-22: Shanghai-
March 23-24: Nanjing
March 25-26: Hangzhou
March 27-28: Tongling, Anhui
March 29-31: Zhengzhou
April 1: Datong, Shanxi
April 2: Taiyuan, Shanxi
April 3-7: Nanyang, Henan
April 8-11: Xi’an, Shaanxi
April 12-16: Yinchuan, Ningxia
April 17: Lanzhou, Gansu
April 18-20: Chengdu, Sichuan
April 21-23: Guiyang, Guizhou
April 24-25: Dali, Yunnan
April 26-28: Lanping, Yunnan
April 29: Kunming, Yunnan
April 30: Nanning, Guangxi
May 1: Shenzhen
May 2-3: Xiamen, Fujian
May 4-5: Shanghai
May 6 Fly back to the United States!
Shanghai to Dallas/FortWorth
Dallas/FortWorth to Denver then home to Pueblo!

April 2019 – Xàtiva and working on my videos

I’m in Xàtiva again!

That means great food!

It also means “nose to the grindstone” as I work on a variety of projects.

Before leaving Denver, I uploaded an updated version of my “Learning Chinese Provinces: Part One”. Lots of nice improvements included the requested “hint” box that now includes full pinyin with tone marks. If the word “pinyin” leaves you scratching your head, don’t worry. People studying Chinese will understand, and the rest of us will not even notice that item!

Unfortunately, for the moment the new video seems to be somewhat “invisible” because it shares the same name as the older version that I released about a year ago. That version is quickly approaching 6,000 views. OK, I know that number is not very impressive in the overall context of Youtube, especially when measured against “hate videos” which garner hundreds of thousands of views…
Oh well… an educational video is no match…

(Update February 2024: Well, several updates later, there is a new version of this “Part One” which now has over 40 thousand views. (Still a tiny fraction of even the stupidest posts available on YouTube, and a tiny fraction of the number of views for offensive racist/hate-speech videos! oh well!)
Parts Two and Three have completed the provinces series. There are now Spanish and French versions of that series and an Italian version of just the first part. I have expanded the videos to include a series on the provincial capitals as well as a couple of miscellaneous ones related to China! More coming in the future! If you want to see, skip the dreaded YouTube copies, and instead take a look at my “Pere-X” site.
(Click HERE for the Pere-X site.)

On that site you can choose to navigate in English, Spanish, French, Italian, or Chinese!