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Saturday, September 26, 2015

Funny Chinese transliterations to help remember English words

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Some Chinese guy with too much free time came up with interesting Chinese transliterations of some English words. Part of the list is as fol...
Monday, July 13, 2015

Prepositional separation as a difficulty of Chinese

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For ease of understanding, I call this prepositional separation: In Chinese, a concept normally denoted by a single prepositional word in mo...
Saturday, May 23, 2015

Translation of a poem "Snow falling on high branches..."

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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...
Saturday, April 25, 2015

English words that seem to have opposite meanings, "sanction", "bash", "bashful"

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Somebody in a forum mentioned a few English words that seem to have opposite meanings. One is "sanction", which according to Wikti...
Thursday, March 26, 2015

Thought experiment: reading speed of a trilingual

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I've always wondered about this. Imagine a person perfectly trilingual[note1] in English (or any language using a phonetic writing syste...
Tuesday, March 17, 2015

My first book

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I just self-published my first book, Random Thoughts while Studying English and Chinese . The table of contents are as follows: 1 "主席...
Saturday, February 28, 2015

Excerpts from a book on second language acquisition

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Second Language Acquisition by Susan M. Gass (C) 2013, Taylor & Francis, 4th ed It's a comprehensive literature review or overvie...
Saturday, January 31, 2015

Affective meaning of "中国" (China)

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"中国" (China), literally "Middle Country" or "Middle Kingdom", probably acquired its affective meaning quite la...
Saturday, December 6, 2014

Which English letter do Chinese pronounce wrong the most?

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The answer to the titled question depends on how much the Chinese has already studied English. If he knows almost nothing about the English ...
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Sunday, November 9, 2014

Why Chinese choose uncommon English names

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