chinglish Archives - Ninchanese https://ninchanese.com/blog/tag/chinglish/ Learn Chinese with an adorable and effective method Fri, 17 Jun 2016 09:55:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://ninchanese.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/cropped-funandgamified-2-32x32.png chinglish Archives - Ninchanese https://ninchanese.com/blog/tag/chinglish/ 32 32 Chinese signs beautifully lost in translation https://ninchanese.com/blog/2013/08/29/chinese-signs-lost-in-translation/ Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:50:00 +0000 http://ec2-54-193-109-251.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com/?p=526 Signs in China are informative, often. More often, though, they are worth a good laugh thanks to their imaginative translations. Chinese signs can get seriously lost in translation. From urging you to “not touch yourself” to “mutant coconuts”, Chinese signs can sometimes have trouble conveying their original message to English-speakers…. But we can’t mind, it’s too entertaining. This

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]]> Signs in China are informative, often. More often, though, they are worth a good laugh thanks to their imaginative translations.

Chinese signs can get seriously lost in translation.

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From urging you to “not touch yourself” to “mutant coconuts”, Chinese signs can sometimes have trouble conveying their original message to English-speakers…. But we can’t mind, it’s too entertaining. This article is a nice showcase of signs in chinglish and their unintentional but funny meanings.

Source: Buzzfeed

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]]> Who Said Adults Couldn’t Learn a New Language? https://ninchanese.com/blog/2013/06/14/linguistic-genius-deborah-fallows/ Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:01:27 +0000 http://ec2-54-193-109-251.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com/?p=553 People may say that adults will have a tough time learning languages, especially one dubbed as complex as Chinese, but this is nonsense according to Deborah Fallows! The linguist  has decided to prove them wrong in this TEDx Talk, and decided to include a few Chinglish signs for your entertainment as well 🙂 The linguistic

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]]> People may say that adults will have a tough time learning languages, especially one dubbed as complex as Chinese, but this is nonsense according to Deborah Fallows! The linguist  has decided to prove them wrong in this TEDx Talk, and decided to include a few Chinglish signs for your entertainment as well 🙂

The linguistic genius of adults: Deborah Fallows at TEDxMidwest

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