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Thursday, July 23, 2009

想练习英语口语总是感到没有话说怎么办?

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Others have excellent suggestions. Let me add that for now, you can imagine you're giving a presentation in your native language, Chines...
Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Off-topic: Language education to solve Chinese ethnic conflict

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The ethnic conflict, or riot, in Xinjiang of northwestern China, caused more than 150 deaths. To be politically correct, the central govern...
Sunday, April 26, 2009

"ever" for 曾经?

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Many Chinese say "ever" when they mean to say 曾经 (ceng2jing1). But that word can be translated as 曾经 only when it's in a quest...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Learn English from native speakers

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No doubt there's great benefit in learning English by talking with a native speaker. But most people don't realize that talking to n...
Saturday, February 14, 2009

"Last January" vs "January last year"

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> He arrived in New York last January.其中的last January > 书上解释为今年一月,而不是去年一月~困惑~ > 如果按这样翻译那last该怎么分辨是今年还是去年? "Last" is...
Sunday, February 8, 2009

"no more than" vs "not more than"

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> Any difference in meaning between these two sentences? > > "His victory in the final was no more convincing than I had expec...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009

"idea" not to be pronounced like "idea-r"

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> yuzhoucn said: > > 不少中国人滥用美音的儿音,如China、India、puma、idea这 > 种字里根本就没有r,也去给它附加一个儿音,听起来就很怪。 I can't agree more on that! We sho...
Monday, December 29, 2008

"Later" and "recently" are used in past tense

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> What will I be a decade later? Normally, "later" is used in a past tense sentence. Here you can say "in a decade"...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Off-topic: Year end charity - Half the Sky

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Over the past few years I've been searching for the perfect charity. Except for the times when there're natural disasters in China, ...
Saturday, December 13, 2008

No concatenation of sentences with comma

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> 1. There are 50 stars on America's national flag, each ______ a state. > A. standing for > B stands for > C represented ...
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