English for Chinese

A joke found on the Internet. (Two lines omitted from the original.) 某公司招聘，好多人打来电话说保安不让进，希望派人接一下。考官说如果你连保安都对付不了，还是别来了。 最后翻墙进来的成海外市场专员； ...

It's a known fact that a Chinese student learning English tends to mix up "he" and "she" in speaking, with "he...

In August, 2012, I blogged that "第几" has no English equivalent . (If you haven't already read it, you may want to take a quick...

On Weibo, the Chinese microblogging web site, there's an article titled "甲骨文的呼唤" (the Call of Oracle Bone Script), where I re...

A Christian friend of mine introduced me to The Reverend Wang Zhiyong (王志勇)'s translation of The Confession of Faith of the Assembly of...

The standard translation of the word "modern" into Chinese is "现代" (literally, "present time or epoch"). But ...

The Chinese word "以为" means "thought", as in "I thought it was Tuesday today" (我以为今天是星期二). There's only on...

In a Chinese high school language class, students are taught the concepts of "内涵" ( intension , not to be confused with intention...

Some English words that were created or became popular after 1950's but before late 1990's are translated differently between mainla...

I just saw Invest and deport Jasmine Sun who was the main suspect of a famous Thallium poison murder case (victim:Zhu Lin) in China , a pet...