English for Chinese

In my last post , I said "Most languages in the world take the alphabetic writing system. Studying the internal history of its vocabul...

People speaking English as the native language are used to dictionaries in which each headword contains not only the definition of the word...

The dictionary translation of "technical" is "技术的", as in "technical skill", "technical innovations...

On May 20th, Obama signed a bill that removes "Negro," "Oriental" and a few other terms from federal laws, specifical...

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...