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Mistakes made by Chinese Learners
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00 I 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: 01 ul
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00 I 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: 01 ul
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- 00 Intonation transfer from L1 may cause them to be perceived as rude/inconsiderate, more serious transfer may affect comprehensiveness. 02 li 01 li
- 00 No inflections in L1 - tenses difficult to learn in L2 as L1 has no true tenses and concept of time is expressed by adverbs/implicit or contextual assumptions. 02 li 01 li
- 00 Difficulty distinguishing [r] & [l] - Does anyone know why this is as I can't find a reason?!! 02 li 01 li
- 00 Prepositions such as 'on', 'in' & 'at' have one chinese translation in many contexts, 'zai' - may be confused resulting in phrases such as 'on Taiwan' instead of 'in Taiwan'. 02 li 01 li
- 00 Use of awkward gerunds e.g. 'no noising', excessive use of verbs ending in 'ing' e.g. 'do not climbing', confusion of 'ed' & 'ing' verbs e.g. 'i am bored' vs 'i am boring' --- all of these errors occur because verbs are not conjugated in chinese, for tense or pronoun. 02 li 01 li
- 00 No equivalent word for 'the' so may be used excessively when not needed e.g. 'The China' or missed out when needed. May also be confused with 'a'/'an'. 02 li 01 li
- 00 Confusion over countable and uncountable nouns, use of 'how much?' vs 'how many?' - leads to phrases such as 'I want a soup' & 'a lot of shoe'. This is due to there not being plurals in chinese - no inflections. 02 li 02 ul
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- 00 Switching between 'he' & 'she' - Does anyone know why this is? 02 li 02 ul
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1 font 01 b 00 Hi, 02 b 02 font 02 br
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01 li 00 Switching between 'he' & 'she' - Does anyone know why this is? 02 li 02 br
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01 b 01 font 00 I've been told that these distinct pronouns are not used in Mandarin. In other words, they don't differentiate, or perhaps they do
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01 b 01 font 00 I've been told that these distinct pronouns are not used in Mandarin. In other words, they don't differentiate, or perhaps they do
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0 You also want the word 'comprehension' not 'comprehensiveness'. 00 0-
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Shannon-
The difficulty with "he" and "she" in Chinese is the same word is used for both (and it). The word in Mandarin is ta1. The only differentiation is the written character for he or she uses either the male or female radical.
English speakers do not usually stress the "r" sound when it is enclosed in a word like heart. If you listen to how you actually say it, the "r" se
The difficulty with "he" and "she" in Chinese is the same word is used for both (and it). The word in Mandarin is ta1. The only differentiation is the written character for he or she uses either the male or female radical.
English speakers do not usually stress the "r" sound when it is enclosed in a word like heart. If you listen to how you actually say it, the "r" se
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