The ones I like most are Hello; bye, bye; OK and a few others that sound to me very close to English words. Report Abuse 12 years 8 weeksago Mr_spoon 0 0 You must be a registered user to vote! You must be a registered user to vote!
Interestingly I encountered this very early in my time in China, when I had a detestable boss in an English teaching gig. One of the Chinese assistants confided in me that he drove her absolutely off the wall with his requests and strict standards, explaining that he made her “zhuā ku...
” to describe an explosion; and “Chinese landing,” which was used by pilots to refer to bumpy, dangerous touchdowns because the aircraft had “one wing low” (a cringeworthy joke about what Asian languages sound like that should sound a bit familiar). Interestingly, Chinese landing...
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The English language has a lot of words that sound alike or look alike. Words like assent and accent look and sounds the familiar. But they have very different means. If you use the wrong word in a sentence, you will confuse you later. Therefore, when you learn to distinguish between ...
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The top Chinese diplomat also stressed that there is only one China in the world and Taiwan is part of China's territory, which is the true status quo of the Taiwan question. He added that what is trying to change the status quo is the "Taiwan independence" separatist activities and the...
Also next time before you know you are going to speak with a foreigner think of a topic you will talk about and words that you want to practice conversing about. This way when you are talking with the foreigner you can practice the new English and thoughts that you were working on. ...
When asked to comment on One Voice Children's Choir from the US, who sang the Chinese song "Ru Yuan" ("As You Wish") at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing last week, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said that the popularity of this well-received video shows once again that...
and English writing systems is that Chinese employs a logographic writing system, while English uses an alphabetic writing system. An alphabetic writing system is one which uses individual letters—each of which roughly corresponds to particular phonemes—to "spell out" how words sound....