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... Introduction Dovercourt School is a bilingual school which provides English and Chinese program. The school philosophy is to believe that the students need to be engaged to be deeply successful in their learning. They believe that the students will be successful by persisting studying, overcoming obstacles, and delighting in accomplishing their work. I began to be a volunteer to read mandarin stories to students in mandarin grades three and four in Dovercourt School in Oct 14 and Oct 16.

Over Population in China and the implementation of Pinyin In response to massive over population in China, the Chinese over has taken drastic measures to reduce the nation’s population. The first step that was implemented was the one-child policy also known as; pinyin. Pinyin is the one child limitation on the majority of families that live in the People’s Republic of China. It is enacted under the official family planing policy. It limits the number of children marries urban couples to have to

Language Studies 172 Assignment 1 :Essay on Language comparison. By: Kyle Sibson 14189702 Assessment 1 For this assessment I have been required to compare English with another language. I have decided to choose Mandarin as my language of choice. A major elements of languages will be compared in this essay. That being phonology. Phonology is defined as being “the study of the way speech sounds form patterns”.(Victoria Fromkin 2009). As (Hammond 1999) describes, every spoken language has a unique

mind that it is not just the spoken languages at play here. While the spoken languages are very important, in a way the written language is much more essential. This written language can be broken up into two parts, the characters (汉子＝hanzi) and then pinyin; which is how the characters are pronounced. The verbal languages spread across China is one of diversity, the dialectal variances between areas within China is amazing. The history surrounding the spoken languages in China is also rather remarkable

Writing has constituted an important practice in human culture since the earliest forms of writing were discovered from cave paintings made 40,000 years ago. Writing enables writers to express themselves in a writing system that conveys unique features of its associated culture. In this context, 'writing' means a standardized system for recording, in a specific language, content ranging from values to ideas to poems, etc. Humans have communicated in thousands of languages throughout history and consequently

sex-selective abortion because of filial piety and the mindset that sons dominate over daughters. In Chinese, filial piety is expressed by the character 孝 (pinyin: xiào). The character xiao is made up of an upper and a lower part. The first part is derived from the character lao (老, pinyin: lǎo), which means ‘old’. The second part is the character 子 (pinyin: zi), which means ‘son’” (Teon, China-journal). The favoritism of males over females is rooted back to the term itself; hence why parents believe that

Confucianism philosophy is filial piety, which consists of the respect, obedience and care for one’s parents and this is then extended to other elders. Filial piety, denoted by the Chinese character 孝 (pinyin: xiào) can be divided into two parts: the upper part (老, pinyin: lǎo) and the lower part (子, pinyin: zi), which mean “old” and “son” respectively. The position of the components itself depicts the meaning of filial piety, which is the young oppressed by the older generation (Teon, 2016). In Mainland

从目的论看广州公示语标牌翻译 [摘要] 旅游翻译，是人们在跨国旅游行为中最为重要的一部分。广州每天接纳外国游客不计其数，规范的公共标示牌用语和严谨的英译文本，有着举足轻重的地位。国外对于旅游景点的标牌翻译已经形成了一系列严谨细致的规范，而我国至今还没有一个较为规范准确的标准，各地标牌翻译“百花齐放”，错漏百出。广州的双语标牌在某些方面较领先于其他的国内城市，比如在标牌的完善度和标牌翻译的准确度上，但是相关的问题依然存在。 本文运用“翻译目的论”的原理，从翻译的目的性出发，列举例证分析了广州公共标识语的翻译现状，对几种不同类型的公共标示牌进行理论分析，指出错误，并提出相应翻译策略。 [关键词] 公示语标牌、翻译目的论、旅游 Translation of Public Signs in Guangzhou：Skopos Theory Perspective [Abstract] The translation in tourism plays the important part in overseas travel while bilingual

Randy Benoit ENGL 122H – 02 (Dorrill) Assignment 1: Li Essay Draft 1, 3 March 2015 Squeezed Persimmon The short story “Persimmons” was written by Yiyun Li. Li was born in 1972 in Beijing and moved to the United States in 1996 to go to college. She originally studied immunology at the University of Iowa, but after taking a writing course she started writing fiction. She earned her master of fine arts in 2005 with a focus on fiction (Yiyun). “Persimmons” is a short story told by a group of older men

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