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In October 5, 2011, I posted Why the Chinese language should not adopt phonetic writing? , where I brought up Sun Yat-sen's statement th...

Teaching English, Chinese, or any language as a second language must obey the rule that the students learn the fastest when they understand...

I keep hearing non-native Chinese speakers greet a native Chinese with a friendly "Ni Hao Ma?" (你好吗?). It's time to set this s...

My kids were reading the English version of the program for an end-of-year show in the Chinese community. They had doubt about the last one ...

This is part of a comment posted to Xujun Eberline's blog Will Chinese Go Alphabetic? Re-posted here as a standalone piece. "Phon...

A question recently posted to a Chinese database forum is about the translation of the Oracle database term "recursive call" as ...

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...