从中式英语到地道英语

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Upgrade your Chinglish to English
C2E
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1 Direct Translations
Chinglish 2 English
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What’s wrong with this sign?
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What should it say?
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Zhejiang University warmly welcomes Mr. Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations
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6 Watch your spelling!
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6. Watch your spelling!
Right Modern True Wrong Mordern; Morden Ture
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2. Out of Date: Grandmother’s English
Grandmother WC English restroom; (wo)men’s room bathroom (home)
This is the room where the toilet can be found
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Even MORE AWKWARD!!!
Awkward English
out of my expectation unexpectedly, suddenly, to my surprise came into my heard, saw, realized ear/eyes/head Till now recently, lately, so far
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1. Direct Translations
Chinese 豆腐 Chinglish bean curd English tofu (Japanese) WadeWade-Giles (d=t)
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3. Bad Translations
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3. Bad Translations
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3. Bad Translations
Chinese
大厦 大酒店
Chinglish mansion wine shop peasant chafing/chaffy dish
NO!!!
“Introduction” IMPLIES it will be brief! brief! There’s no need to say: “A BRIEF Introduction”
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Chinglish 2 English©
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INTRODUCTION
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Are You Confused?
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Welcome to Chinglish 2 English™
Upgrade your Chinglish to English!
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A Brief Introduction
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Still MORE AWKWARD!!!
Awkward Fetch Sit down, please! English go and get Please have a seat
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Wish you have a ...... remember you forever!
永远地你! 永远地你!
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More Direct Translations
Chinese 给你 很喜欢 怎么说 Chinglish give you very like STH How to say How to spell Yellow hair English here you are/go like STH very much How do you say How do you spell Blond(e) – adj. + n.
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Still MORE AWKWARD!!!
Awkward in a word ..... English in short brief summary conclusion other words a nutshell
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5 BORING!!!
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Wrong Clotheses (klozez)
Why do students make this mistake?
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English center, tower, plaza restaurant, hotel farmer hot pot
农民
火锅
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3. Bad Translations
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Chinese 欢迎你
祝你有个
Chinglish Welcome you to SP... SP...
English Welcome to SP ... (but never say “Welcome to here”) I wish you a .... I hope you have a... always remember you
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5. BORING!!!
Boring it’s a pity diligent so-so sohumo(u)rous
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English too bad; a shame hardworking; studious; conscientious not bad/OK/pretty good funny
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The Situation
Out of date textbooks Out of date and/or poorly edited dictionaries Out of date and/or poor translations Direct Chinese to English translations Out of date language teaching methods
(public)
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This is a toilet
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More Grandmother’s English
Grandmother it’s a pity English too bad/it’s a shame
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5. MORE BORING!!!
Boring delicious English good, nice, tasty, yummy
and don’t use VERY with delicious!
famous try my best and so on
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3. Bad Translations
Chinese
应该
Chinglish should diligent
English must/shall hardworking conscientious studious steadfast
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勤奋
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3. Bad Translations
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大厦
Chinglish mansion
English center, tower, plaza
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3 Bad Translations
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3. Bad Translations
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入口 出口
Chinglish way in way out
English entrance exit
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4. AWKWARD!!!
Awkward the STH of it
the parts of it e.g. the cover of the book the door of the car
English its STH
its parts e.g. the book’s cover the car’s door
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2. Out of Date: Grandmother’s English
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2. Out of Date: Grandmother’s English
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2. Out of Date: Grandmother’s English
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How Did This Happen?
Reliance on old textbooks and dictionaries Reliance on old translations that are passed down from teacher to student through generations
(from French)
黄头发
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2 Out-ofOut-of-Date: Grandmother’s English
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2. Out of Date: Grandmother’s English
WC
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MORE AWKWARD!!!
Awkward It is said start finish English I heard/read/was told
good morning/afternoon/evening
thank you
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6. Watch your pronunciation!
Right Clothes (kloz)
Either: 1. They don’t know that clothes is an uncountable noun Or 2. They try to pronounce the /th/. The /th/ in clothes is SILENT. Clothes = Close
wellwell-known/renowned try, strive etc.
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5. Still MORE BORING!!!
Boring English lovely handsome naughty
use other descriptive adjectives that tell the reader why SB is lovely, handsome, or naughty