English for Chinese

Of the twelve Chinese zodiac animals, some are translated into English as various names, such as 羊 as "sheep", "goat" o...

Facebook一 语言学习群 有人说他在法国一所小学教英语。学校招了一名印度裔英语老师（英语是她的母语），他是这名新老师的领导。学校其他老师向他抱怨说新老师的口音对小孩是个问题，特别是发r这个音时。他认为这些老师不对，因为他认为习惯不同口音是非常好的一件事。（他说“i don...

美国英语称底楼为first floor，往上依次是second floor、third floor等，英国英语称底楼为ground floor，往上是first floor、second floor，至今仍然如此。欧洲各国遵循英国惯例，世界很多地区也是如此。但在拉丁美洲，楼层的...

On Weibo or Microblog, the Chinese social network, the blogger 芝加哥艺术博物馆 (Art Museum of Chicago) made a posting about Claude Monet, and q...

It may sound obvious. When you want to know the meaning of a word, you look it up in a dictionary and check the definitions, probably with ...

A filler word in a language is uttered when the speaker hesitates in speech. While most languages have eh , ah or m , some languages have...

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...