English for Chinese

I'm organizing a database user group (formerly Oracle user group) at my work place. One trivial question comes up. Should it be "Da...

According to http://www.dict.org , "insight" primarily means "A sight or view of the interior of anything", as in "...

> 中學時候常常聽到的一句話“xx學生不是不聰明，就是不好好學”。 > 後來我就有想到，什麽是聰明？什麽是不聰明？不知道時間的寶貴、 > 學生時代學習機會的難得而只是貪玩，這是最大的不聰明 The Chinese sentence is playing with...

Very interesting remark by a guy named Russianbear at http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=17338&PN=2&TPN=...

> even if today is sunday,but we have to work. That's a common mistake Chinese make in learning English. If you have "even if...

Educative comments from an online forum. Not just for Japanese. Are Japanese natives generally exclusive? "but I've met the people ...

We're going to have a neighborhood night-out gathering and emails are sent to everybody. Neighbor's dogs used to bother me at night....

> 一开始就学中等或高级学习者的教材或看适合他们的难度的 > 文章，这样欲速则不达。(If from the beginning you > study the textbooks suitable for an intermediate > or ...

Luo Jialun's "A New Point of View of Human Life" is full of interesting little stories and quotes of historical figures. Other...

近读章太炎“国学概论“，感字字珠玑，隽语良多。然章谓“历观中国古代，在太平安宁之时,治哲学的极少,等到乱世,才有人研究。”颇出人意料。盖哲学思辨之学，本当衣暖食饱然后静坐而治之，何以至乱世才有人研究？或许中国哲学皆入世之学，或以入世为最终目的，非泰西哲学之纯思辨。