The Day When It Came to China The earliest traceable appearance of "歇斯底里" in Chinese was in the translated version of "The Electrician and electrical engineer" v.06(Electrical Pub. ... Since the only way to import a word is by translating, if there was no earlier source, this could be the place where "歇斯底里/hysteria" was given birth to in Chinese. ... This could also explain why the word "hysteria" was translated into Chinese phonetically as "歇斯底里": Sometimes Chinese-English bilinguals use English words in replace of Chin...

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Why squander millions of taxpayer's dollars for ballots to be translated with a high possibility of translation errors? ... Chances are that the translation doesn't come out to great either. In New York City's 1993 Chinese ballot erroneously printed the Chinese character for no as a translation for yes. But the worst translation of all is oral translation. ... The translations have large errors and help for fraud too. ...

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I took English classes in some English courses in Kediri-, a city far from my hometown where people from different cities around Indonesia come to learn foreign languages like English, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. ... Some that I remember the titles are Grammar for Beginners, Speaking for Beginners, Vocabulary and Expression, English for Kids, Learning English through Singing (Kid Songs in Indonesian that I translated into English), and Commonly Used English Expressions. Besides writing, I sometimes get a translation job, mostly translating English into Indonesian. The most difficult...

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Children and Bilingualism According to the 1990 United States Census, one in seven or 31.8 million people speak a language other than English in their home. In the past, second generation children were encouraged to adopt the customs, culture, and language of what was identified as the majority cu...

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