English for Chinese

One could write a dissertation on foreign language accent. But here's a little observation I made after my recent reading on phonology....

A recent topic in a Chinese forum titled http://bbs.gxsd.com.cn/archiver/?tid-477193.html

Yan Fu (严复, 1854-1921), a thinker, translator and educator, proposed three levels of translation quality, i.e., progressively, 信, 达, 雅, roug...

This is a sequel to Proper name translation: semantic or phonetic . Proper names pose a challenge to translation not because of the languag...

There are many ways to gauge what foreign language is popular. One way is to check how many books are at a bookstore. I went to a local Bor...

Google Translate is increasingly popular. But more mistakes are also being found, especially when idioms are translated. One salient examp...

In researching a subject in history of Chongqing, I came across various English translations of the name of a building, "白公馆" in ...

I've seen too many Chinese use the word "recently" to translate "最近" incorrectly. Dict.org explains "recently...

> 一句文言，大家看怎么翻译合适？ > “ 民困于贪残之政，故托言大鼠害己而去之也。 ” This is a classical or literary Chinese sentence from "Interpretation of The Book...

> Hi there, a friend of mine gave me your email as a way to > translate Chinese to English.  I have attached a picture. > Can yo...