Is Mandarin Chinese worth learning? No one thinks so
“The craze for teaching Chinese may be a misguided fad” argued The Economist in 2007. The Economist found…
Language Polishing–Stop Using It!
Translation departments in China have long relied on language polishing, despite academic findings that it is pseudoscientific and…
Reference Documents for Legal Translation
Reference documents are a superior alternative to dictionaries because they are genuine primary sources, and not based on…
Minimum pricing policies for Chinese>English translation
According to the Translators Association of China, sham and misleading translations continue to plague the Chinese legal translation…
The tiny vocabulary effect in Chinese to English translation
The tiny English vocabularies of Chinese translators have resulted in a variety of absurdities that amount to much…
When translation quality assessments turns vicious
Translation quality assessment (TQA) for Chinese-English translation almost always results in unsatisfactory outcomes. The most common outcome is…
China’s Machine Translation Robots Have Become English Teachers
The increasing reliance on machine translation in the early stages of the English education process is one of…
Fast translation services are dangerous for customers
The Chinese translation market is dominated by translators that go extremely fast, as shown by how prices for…
Can Machine Translation Replace English-Only Policies?
Will machine translation be the end of English-only policies in corporations? I believe that machine translation has evolved…
How to apply lexicogrammar to Chinese-English translation
Unbeknownst to many, seemingly impossible Chinese-English translation challenges can be solved by applying lexicogrammar. This linguistic approach offers…