Introduction

What is this?
The tool before you has been made to facilitate the process of learning the original Chinese names of the Wu Tai Chi Chuan style's movements.

Why learn the Chinese names?
There are well over 200 indigenous languages and dialects in Europe and 6,800 known languages in the world. Even if we would restrict ourselves to the 11 official languages of the European Union (Spanish, Danish, German, Greek, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Finnish and Swedish) we would still have our hands (and mouths) full! The original Chinese names of the Wu Tai Chi Chuan style's movements could act as a common frame of reference when people of different tongues would train together.

About the Tool
This HTML document should be used as a reference sheet when playing the sound bits. The Danish branch of EWCT recommends the WinAmp player. The enclosed file "wutaichi_names.m3u" is a WinAmp playlist with all sound bits put in the right order. The playlist points to the general path "E:\ewtc". In the folder named "MP3" all the sound bits can be found in MP3 format. This should enable you to listen to the material both on your computer as well as on your portable MP3 player.

Behind the Tool
This tool of learning was not conceived as a stand alone product, but as supplement to the book:

Wagner, Nina and Klüfer, Werner. 2000. Wu Tai Chi Chuan - Ma Jiangbao : The Slow Form. Germany : MACH:ART. Originally published in 1996.
ISBN 3-932330-12-9
Contact: http://www.wu-taichi.de/ for further information on how to purchase the book.