English for Chinese

The answer to the titled question depends on how much the Chinese has already studied English. If he knows almost nothing about the English ...

A Washington News article Satirical news site attacks China’s weird English names quotes a BBC article, which ultimately quotes a CCTV News...

This is an abridged English translation of my article in Chinese 学术翻译：直译或意译？ (Scholarly translation: literal or free translation?). In 198...

You frequently see the Apply button on a computer. For instance, after you make some configuration changes, you can press OK to apply the ch...

In a recent Facebook posting, I read I keep coming across the same opinion, something along the lines of "we should all be learning C...

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...