By Sentence structures, Translation

Miche wrote:Hi, JT. I can see you don't like rules much and I agree with you. Rules are too restrictive, hamper one's "feeling" the language and deprive him/her of the pleasure of speaking the language. That is a major problem with English learners in my country - they can recite mile-long lists...

Angliholic wrote: I keep some money for the tour and I could take some part-time jobs to earn my expense for my dream. A Taiwanese wrote this. Does it sound right, especially the part in bol? Thanks. This is a typical "Chinglish" (please pardon the term) sentence structure which is the...

Yes, it sounds reasonably natural. Some notes:Use a variety of sentence structures-- complex, compound-complex, etc-- rather than a series of short simple sentences.Commas go inside of the quotation marks for quotes; as do periods, if the quote is the entire sentence.Latter, not later'in charge...

My high school Chinese teacher asked me to help her translate these two abstracts from Chinese into English. I have finished, but I need to correct them into better English. Please help me. I have to give my teacher the translation. She helped me quite a lot while I encountered the most...

Thanks a lot! We do have unclear conversation / writing. As I'm taking a translation course, I've to understand the English meaning /sentence structure & then translate it. If this means unclear, it will be translated this way. Some unsolved queries: (1) Susan puts some nuts on the...

ManiacX78X wrote:Hello,i study technician engineering in germany and my last english lesson is about 7 years ago. I've wrote an application in german, but i need an english translation too. Therefore i have used the follwing free online...

A lot of people associate 'thinking in English' with 'not translating' but isn't that a bit 'underestimating' translation? 'not translating literally' is maybe a more appropriate phrase. If it's about 'not translating literally', would it mean the same, for instance, if I say 'Use English...