English for Chinese

For ease of understanding, I call this prepositional separation: In Chinese, a concept normally denoted by a single prepositional word in mo...

Somebody asked for a translation of this poem: 雪落高枝映蕾菲 惊洁美 卓然岂摧眉 My translation： Snow falling on high branches befits blooming flowe...

Somebody in a forum mentioned a few English words that seem to have opposite meanings. One is "sanction", which according to Wikti...

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...