English for Chinese

An auxiliary verb is one that cannot be used alone and must work with a regular verb. English "can" is an example, e.g. "I ca...

In English, a restrictive clause restricts the scope of the noun or pronoun in front of it (antecedent, head word), while a non-restrictive...

Four and half years ago, I checked language popularity based on the number of shelves for the foreign language books at a local Borders Boo...

Xi Jinping of Mainland China and Ma Ying-jeou of Taiwan, two top leaders on each side, had a historic meeting on November 7, 2015. It was an...

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...

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...