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Avatar Posted by Zharahk 652 days ago (http://www.chron.com)
Category: China News | Tags: language english law corruption
It's a new twist on globalization: For decades, Chinese made their way to the West, often illegally, to end up doing dangerous, low-paying jobs in sweatshop conditions. Now some foreigners drawn by China's growth and hunger for English lessons are landing in the schoolhouse version of the sweatshop.
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Avatar Posted by demerzel 56 days ago (http://www.micahfk.com)
Category: General | Tags: baidu music mp3 english
Baidu is quite well known in China as being the place to get free mp3s by just searching for songs at mp3.baidu.com and then downloading the song from the respective website. Now, this can be done still in Google with some advanced search commands (eg: filetype:mp3 aerosmith), but what could be don
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Avatar Posted by ogagator 400 days ago (http://chineseinvancouver.blogspot.com)
Category: Politics | Tags: taiwan president english
Opposition lawmakers yesterday proposed a legal amendment that English-language competency should be mandatory for all presidential aspirants.

Presidential hopefuls who fail to pass the intermediate level of General English Proficiency Test (GEPT) would be disqualified from running in the presid
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Avatar Posted by nstanosheck 14 days ago (http://nstanosheck.blogspot.com)
Category: Tech-Web | Tags: qq im communication mac english app
Ok. So most of us are well aware of the Chinese Chat software, QQ. Chances are, if you know a Chinese person, or someone learning Chinese, you know a registered QQ user. But until recently there was no English sign-up page or a Mac version of the QQ application...
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Avatar Posted by pandapassport 451 days ago (http://www.coxwashington.com)
Category: Learning Chinese | Tags: beijing olympics chinglish english
BEIJING — Visitors to China's capital can stroll through "Racist Park," enjoy a plate of "Crap in the Grass" and stop by a Starbuck's franchise for a cup for "Christmas Bland" coffee.

Now the Beijing government is trying to clean up such mistranslations and sloppy editing (including th
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Avatar Posted by demerzel 136 days ago (http://www.micahfk.com)
Category: Learning Chinese | Tags: chinese language english meanings
Metabetable at Mark’s China Blog posts some interesting examples of the literal meaning of some Chinese words and I thought to add more to that while correcting some of his earlier translations.
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