English for Chinese

Nowadays, the Chinese head of state, "主席" (Zhǔxí, zhu3 xi2), is always translated as "president", not "chairman...

(Reposting from my other blog ) The January 9 issue of Journal of Neuroscience published an article Lifelong Bilingualism Maintains Neura...

被 (bèi) is the character denoting passive voice of a Chinese sentence and optionally serves as the preposition "by" in front of ...

It's not uncommon to hear Chinese speaking English say "For" to introduce a sentence-level topic , e.g. The two programs, A...

It's common practice in China to have a well-known calligrapher or a government official to write the name of a famous building, bridge,...

In a crowded bus in China, a middle aged man sees a young kid standing by him. He stands up and yields his seat to the kid, who says to him ...

Francis Bacon's Of Beauty has "Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set". What is exactly "best plain set"? Acc...

In the August 28, 2012 issue of " 北京晚报 ", it is reported that more than a hundred Chinese scholars signed a letter sent to the Ch...

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, ...