12 typical Chinese-style mistakes in English

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Sherry2014-08-27 16:36:21

1. This price is very suitable for me. Mistake: The price was very suitable for me. Positive: The price was right. Tip: The most common use of suitable (suitable, matching) is in the form of a negative in a sign or notice, such as: The following program is not suitable for children. The following programme is not a suitable for children. This sentence will be more appropriate with the following statement.

2. What kind of work do you do? Error: What's your job?: is working at the moment? What kind's work is? Tip: What's wrong with the your job? Yes. Because if your interlocutor has just been unemployed, such direct questioning will make the other party lose face, so you have to ask: Are you currently working? is working at the moment? Then you ask: Where do you work now? Where is working these days? or what industry do you work in? What is line's work is?

3. How do you say it in English? What to say? Positive: How does you say this in 中文版? Tip: How to say is one of the most rampant Chinese English language in China, which is by no means an authentic English word. The same sentence: How do you spell the word? How does you spell the word please? How does pronounce this word?

4. I have something to do tomorrow. Error: I has something to do tomorrow. Positive: I am tied up all day tomorrow. Hint: I have a something to does to show that you are very busy, which is completely Chinese-style argument. Because every moment we have something to do, lying there sleeping is also a thing. So you can say I'm busy, I'm not open: I ' m tied up. There are other arguments: I can ' t make it on that time. I ' d love to, but I can ' t, I had to stay at home.

5. I have no English name. Error: I haven ' t English name. Positive: I don ' t have a 中文版 Name. Tip: Many people who make such mistakes in English, from a grammatical point of view, may be lacking in grammatical skills, because there is a literal verb here, not a meaningless auxiliary verb in the present complete. Therefore, this sentence from a positive sentence to a negative sentence to add auxiliary verbs. To understand the truth is one thing, the habit is another, please say a few words: I have no money; I do not have a brother or sister; I do not have any brothers or sisters. I don't have a car. I don ' t have a car.

6. I guess I can't. Error: I think I can ' t. Positive: I don ' t think I can. Hint: in Chinese saying "I think I don't", English always says "I don't think I will". In the future, when you speak a similar English sentence, you will be accustomed to the expression of English as long as you pay attention to it.

7. I can't dance well. Error: I don ' t dance well too. Positive: I am not a very good dancer either. Hint: When we say that we are not good at doing something, English is usually used not good at something, English thinking is even directly enthusiastic to : I'm not a good dancer.

8. What time is it now? Error: What time is the it now? Right: What's it, please? Tip: What time is it? It's now a sentence that has been translated directly from Chinese, and there's no need to say now when speaking English, because you can't ask what's T yesterday, or what time is it tomorrow? So the saying that conforms to the English habit is: Excuse me now? Another way of saying this is: how is we doing for time? This sentence is particularly appropriate when there is a limitation.

9. My English is very bad. Error: My 中文版 is poor. Positive: I am not 100% fluent, but at least I am improving. Tip: Some people joke that the Chinese are best at the English language: My 中文版 is poor. Foreigners encounter their own foreign language bad situation, they will say: I am still have a few problem, but I am getting better.

10. Would you like to come to our party? Mistake: Would you like to join our party on Friday? Positive: Would you as to come to the Friday? Hint: Join often refers to a club or association, such as: Join a health club; Join the Communist Party. In fact, the verbs that are often paired with the party are come or go. such as go a wild party, or come to a Christmas party.

11. I have no experience. Error: I have no experience. Positive: I don ' t know much about that. Hint: I have no experience this sentence sounds weird, because you just have to say that I know little, or I'm not good at it. I am not really a expert in the area.

12.--Do you go home this spring festival? --Yes, I'll go back. --will You being going back home for the Spring Festival? Error:--of course! positive:--sure. /certainly. Tip: English-speaking people use the course more often than Chinese students, and only speak of course when answering some well-known questions. Because the word behind the course is, "Of course I know!" Am I a fool? "Therefore, the course with provocative meaning. It's much better to use a sure or certainly effect when talking. At the same time, the course not also has a provocative meaning. Under normal circumstances the tone is certainly not.

12 typical Chinese-style mistakes in English