By Translation, Genders

If your problem is with "she", you might look at a newer translation; there are several that are gender-neutral.

Hi everyoneI just wondered if anyone could help - I have to write a profile of a chinese learner of English (completely made up). In it I must put any difficulties that the learner has in learning English as an L2. I have got so far:Intonation transfer from L1 may cause them to be perceived as...

Hi Hela, My French, I'm sorry to say, is not good enough to verify the precision of the translations (though I was happy that I was able to understand the general meaning in all of them), so I'm going to comment only on the naturalness of the English. 4) Normally or Usually (either is okay),...

MrPedantic wrote: Hello Sara, I can't speak for US English; but the literal translation "people of colour" is now sometimes heard in the UK, as here: http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_a_l/yasmin_alibhai_brown/article124936.ece But it's the kind of term that drifts in and out of...

Hello Sara, I can't speak for US English; but the literal translation "people of colour" is now sometimes heard in the UK, as here: http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_a_l/yasmin_alibhai_brown/article124936.ece But it's the kind of term that drifts in and out of approval; I wouldn't...

Hi, in Italian every word has a gender. I have to say that you recognize if a word is "a male" or "a female" looking at the last vowel. Umm, not 100% sure, though, on second thought there are some exceptions, but... well, I think practically no one here get the gender wrong, not...

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...

Masoome wrote: hi I have problem in translation of he and sheto my native language because the gender is important to distinguish them but we have no differences between both of them in my native language,Persian i mean. thanks Sounds to me as though you have no problem going from English...

hi I have problem in translation of he and sheto my native language because the gender is important to distinguish them but we have no differences between both of them in my native language,Persian i mean. thanks

This is the problem many face when when the gender mix is unknown. In this instance, Dear Sirs,...etc would be perfectly acceptable. However, if your correspondence is addressed to a group of individuals where you know a female is included, then you would write: Dear Sir / Madam (no...