English for Chinese

A Chinese American person recently told me she had better listening skills in Chinese than English (note: not listening comprehension, but ...

First, a few grammatical terms. Everyone knows what an adjective is, like "big" in "a big car". Past participle (PP her...

In English, the compound adjectives <NP>-<V>ing (noun or noun phrase followed by verb in its -ing form) and <NP>-<V...

英语介词until（till）即使不是在人类所有语言也至少是最普遍的十几种语言中非常独特的词：它具有一种语义上的状态反转。以下是我在Facebook语言学群中发的帖： English "until"/"till" has a sid...

According to Wikipedia , about half of the world's languages take subject–object–verb (SOV) as the primary word order of a sentence, wh...

Mutual intelligibility is one important way to differentiate a language from a dialect, in spite of some complications . One such complica...

In a technical discussion forum about databases, someone posted an off-topic message: "to all Oracle staff, this phrase is not Englis...

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...