English for Chinese

It's a frequently asked question in English study forums in China (recently here ). How do you say "第几" in English? When A as...

eCollegeFinder has a new article on English as a Second Language, How to Educate ESL Students . It discusses two methods of education, ...

I was entered into eCollegeFinder ESL (English for Second Language) Blogs Award, and apparently got to the 39th place in the finals. Not ba...

A recent update on "Ni Hao Ma" (你好吗） is not a native Chinese greeting prompted me to blog about what I have thought of for some ...

Interjections (叹词) are another type of "虚词" or empty words . At least one interjection seems to be common to many if not all langu...

The Chinese empty word (虚词) "虽然" or "尽管" corresponds to "although", "though", or one sense of "...

The Chinese empty word (虚词) "当然" is generally translated as "of course" or "certainly". It makes perfect sense...

The Chinese empty word (虚词) "很" means "very". This translation is straightforward and universally accepted. But there...

The term "empty word", or "虚词", in Chinese, refers to "a word or morpheme that has no lexical meaning and that func...

I read this on weibo.com, the Chinese equivalent of Facebook: "We used to learn English to know the world. We now learn English to know...