Continuing from our last blog post... First attempt by a Chinese native Nothing much happen in the realm of Chinese language education until three hundred years after, when the Qing Dynasty had past its heyday and started to feel the force of machine guns brought by industrialized Europeans. At the turn of the 19th century,… Continue reading How did people learn Chinese before Pinyin? (2)
You might have seen hilarious translation fails from Chinese to English on signs and menus, and had some good laughs. However, you may want to consider the fact that translation between Chinese and any other phonetic languages is by nature a complex task. Culture and grammar aside, to start off, unlike other alphabets-based phonetic languages,… Continue reading Not so lost in Translation
