English for Chinese

According to Wikipedia , 42% of world languages follow the subject-verb-object (SVO) order, and 45% follow the SOV order. In a Facebook gro...

* 作时间副词的“最近”：recently（或lately）仅用于过去。一个较常见的错误是将表示“不远将来”的“最近”也译为recently，此时正确的用词是soon、in the near future、甚至now、currently等，或不译，如“我最近在搬家”（Curre...

The debate in China about keeping or dropping English as a mandatory course in middle school and high school has been going on for at least...

安倍晋三遇刺身亡，美国田纳西议员Steve Cohen 称 刺杀行为是a dastardly act，日本首相岸田文雄对刺杀行为的 说法 被英译为dastardly and barbaric。英语词dastardly不很常用，它兼有“怯懦”和“邪恶”的意思，似乎没有合适的汉语词...

In my last posting , I said "成年后学外语，口音几乎不可能完全消除，略带外国口音不是坏事，但如果华人希望更好地与人交流、或从政、或跻身公司高层，减少口音即使不是必须的，也是有益的。它需要仔细听、模仿、学习，和长时间不懈的努力" (...

以前讲过中国学生或华人 最容易读错的英语字母N ，应读/ɛn/，但中国人读作/n/，或/ɛ/变得很弱。这里讲几个容易读错的词： * southern：它的第一音节元音是/ʌ/（即cut的元音），不是/aʊ/，虽然south中的元音是/aʊ/。的确有词典说加拿大或苏格兰方言有...

Apart from onomatopoeias, borrowed or transliterated words, or cognates [note], what are some English and Chinese words that happen to have...

At the end of Dr. James C Davis 's The Human Story , a great overview of world history, he wrote a four-line poem that summarizes his p...

Sometimes it is debatable to say that two language varieties are two different languages, or that they are two dialects of one single langu...

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