F2F Class Notes 25th March (Tony)

Translate Directly to see language logic:  Make your sentence like the direct translation. Keep the order of the sentence, to see grammar patterns. 

ni hen chang shi jian mei lai = You very long time without come. (Super Chinglish)                                       Correct English :         You didn’t come here for a very long time.

I will hang out with my friends after this class. = Wo jiang chu qu wan he wo de pengyou yihou zhe ke  (can cleary see that the Chinese grammar is wrong, because we are using English grammar structure)                                                                         Correct Chinese : Zai zhe jie ke yihou wo jiang yao yu wo de pengyou chu qu wan.       Chinglish:  In this class after i will want with my friend go out play.

Original/Correction

It is true that Chinese like to go abroad and buy some things. Recently, some bad news was reported by a Korean journalist. It involves some shops that sold fake makeup to Chinese tourists. Shop owners always put a notice on the window saying that these goods weren’t sold to Koreans. Though the owner have implied some bad news, many travelers still brought because they couldn’t understand Korean. Many people brought products from these shops because these goods were cheap. However, you can sell fake products to Chinese because you are popular.

Correction –

It is true that Chinese like to go abroad and buy some things. Recently, some bad news was reported by a Korean journalist. It involves some shops that sold fake makeup to Chinese tourists. Shop owners always put a notice on the window saying that Koreans shouldn’t buy these goods. Though the owner had implied some bad news, many travelers still bought the products because they couldn’t understand Korean. Many people bought products from these shops because these goods were cheap. However, they could sell fake products to Chinese people because they are popular, and they can get away with it.

Vocabulary

I don’t know how he learned English so well.

he has been there for five years

My friend is American, but he can’t write English as well as me.

expired – beyond the date that is is good for

eg: Don’t eat that, it’s expired.

get away with sth. – do something wrong and or get caught or in trouble

eg: He stole that car and got away with it, because they never found him.