English for Chinese

I finally finished my little book Basic Chinese Characters . It contains 2500 commonly used Chinese characters selected by the Ministry of ...

The 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx (May 5, 1818 - March 14, 1883) is coming soon. This great thinker is one of the very few th...

First, a translation of a poem ( ci-poem to be exact) by Ms. Li Qingzhao (李清照, 1084 – ca 1155/1156), a poet at the turn of the Northern-t...

Linguaholic created a crowdsourcing project, The Multilingual Idioms List . I think two things are new in this project. As far as I k...

Kahlil Gibran (1883 – 1931) was an accomplished Lebanese poet. His well-known poem On Children Your children are not your children. They...

Chinese has been widely considered to be one of the most difficult languages in the world. What constitutes the difficulty of a language? C...

[The following was written on November 11, 2016.] The author of the famous military strategy book The Art of War , Sun Wu , commonly kno...

A Chinese reader asked me about the difference between "freedom" and "liberty" when translating Chinese "自由" i...

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...