English for Chinese

I've always wondered about this. Imagine a person perfectly trilingual[note1] in English (or any language using a phonetic writing syste...

I just self-published my first book, Random Thoughts while Studying English and Chinese . The table of contents are as follows: 1 "主席...

Second Language Acquisition by Susan M. Gass (C) 2013, Taylor & Francis, 4th ed It's a comprehensive literature review or overvie...

"中国" (China), literally "Middle Country" or "Middle Kingdom", probably acquired its affective meaning quite la...

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； ...