Hello everyone!  Welcome to the David Wu Blog!  Here I'll be sharing with you a little bit about myself my life as an entertainer.  People are always asking me what it's like to be a famous celebrity in Asia and now I finally have a way to let my fans know all about me.  Come back often to check up on my latest updates!

First though, I'd like to tell you a little about myself...

The day was October 1966 and I was born in a town called Southbridge, Massachusetts. A year later, my family and I moved to Taipei, Taiwan where we eventually lived for the next 13 years. Here I attended an American school where I was able to build my bilingual language ability. When I was 14, my family migrated to Seattle, Washington where where I eventually attended the University of Washington and graduated with a degree in Business Administration in 1988.

 After completing my degree, I moved to Hong Kong and joined the movie industry in 1989. Since then, I've been in over 100 feature films, such as “Farewell to My Concubine,” directed by Chen Kaige, “Full Throttle,” with Andy Lau, “Restless,” an American independent film with Josh Lucas, Katherine Kellner, and Geng Le, to name just a few.

 My involvement in the industry did not end there. Since starting out in films, through the years I got myself involved in other aspects of the entertainment industry, such as being a D.J. for a radio station , hosting various large scale events, and television, by acting in T.V. dramas, and hosting numerous variety shows. With all my involvement in the industry, my most notable work was my work as a V.J., or Video Jockey, for 10 years. A lot of people have seen my 5 minute interstitial English program called, “Go West,” which set a new precedence in the way people here in Asia perceive the English language. Because of “Go West“'s popularily, I created a new series called Talk da Talk which is all about learning English and having fun. 

WIth Talk da Talk, I try and blend American slang, idioms, everyday conversational English with my unique presentation skils.  I try and make learning English fun, entertaining, and most of all, useful for everyday conversation. This is really easier said than done though as my brand of presentation calls for all my years of experience in movies, television and show hosting.  More importantly, I really need to use my English background which comes from all the years of living in the U.S.

Later on we launched the Talk da Talk Radio Show, talkdatalk.com and even our first Talk da Talk English Club here in Shanghai where our members can study our English for Modern Living product and participate in club activities where they use and practice their English though all these great, fun activities.  I personally believe that when you learn a language, the most important thing is that you use it.  The more you use it, the better you'll get at speaking.  And you try and make it fun and interesting so that you don't get all bored.  People who are happy and learning always learn the best.  That's what we're all about!

Anyways, that's enough for now but I just wanted to say “Yo!” to all my fans out there...

Check back soon for future updates!

posted on 2006-03-20 10:26 吴大维 阅读(4778) 评论(23)  编辑  收藏 网摘收藏