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对不起,我开始把一些句子从Chinese-American加到中文的 Wikipedia 但是我拿过来的东西不是很完整. 我自己是美国藉华人而且我的中文能力有限. 希望你帮我多把这个文章的内容翻译过去.

Roadrunner 04:27, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

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A few language pointers to help you improve. Idiomaticity is HARD!

My English is not very good, and I want to learn it well

Better to say "My English is not very good, but I want to learn it well"

On another page you said: "THIS ARTICLE IS TOO BAD"

You'd better say, "This article is bad" or something like that. "Too" (太) or similar words are hard to translate (e.g. 你太笨: "You're so stupid", NOT "You're too stupid". English "too" is often 过分, not 太.
The real "too bad" has a different meaning--I made the mistake of saying, 太不好 instead of 太遗憾 ("Too bad"), as this is what is means.
Ciao! --Dpr 17:15, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

呵呵，没有注意这些细节
Well, language, I dare say, is all about the details :)
有人能教我实在是感到荣幸。
I do appreciate your kind words. Actually, I suppose teaching someone truly is the greatest gift you can give them (for instance, Plato's cave). (Haha do you know the Chinese proverb about "teach[ing] a man to fish"?.) But every teacher is also learning as he teaches.
Learning a language often can only be done with a detail-oriented native speaker to point out mistakes. And it does also require a LOT of detailed observation on one's own part.
用and连接似乎比but转折在这里更合适一些啊。
Frankly speaking, from a native's perspective, I think it looks/sounds a bit uncommon. You can ask other natives/teachers if you like. How would you say it in Zhongwen?
你最后用Ciao是指意大利语的“再见”么？
Dui. I saw your links to other Wikis so I thought you knew some Italian. Ciao is used for both Hello and Goodbye, like Hawaiian "aloha" or Korean "annyeong" (informal). Zai jian :) --Dpr 03:05, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 你好啊

我是复旦大学的,交个朋友吧!--Anthony Aragorn Gao 15:58, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

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授人以鱼，不如授人以渔。？

I think that's right...it's a good one!

我的英文算不上好，（于是）我想把它学得更好。这里的“于是”和“但是”就应该是“and”和“but”的区别。

One way "I English is not what it could be, but I want to learn it well." This phrasing is pretty native and might recomment it. As for "and" and "but"...well, "and" generally links things that are "harmonious" (so to speak), such that "My English is not so good, and I want to learn it well," does not sound like native English. You ought to use "but," because the two concepts contained in the sentence are contrasting. However, 于是 is really "so" or "therefore," as you know (among other meanings)...so maybe the most correct literal translation would be (based on my above phrasing), "I English is not what it could be, so I want to learn it well." This is really the same in meaning as the first version. Your pick.

ps：请问您是一位美籍（或者别的国家）华人还是一位学习或者教授中文的英语母语使用者？

Before I answer let me ask you a question...if you have learned the term "comfort zone," you might know my reaction :) (I'm not trying to be sarcastic at all...just, maybe Socratic, haha).

Well, hope all is well. That new Bali bombing is quite a tragedy! Talk to you later! --Dpr 07:06, 2 October 2005 (UTC)


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