Comments on: Improving your Chinese by translating from another language https://www.hackingchinese.com/using-translating-to-improve-your-chinese/ A better way of learning Mandarin Wed, 07 Aug 2024 19:18:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Student Q&A, August 2024: Avoiding mental translation, untranslatable words and why practising translation is good | Hacking Chinese | Hacking Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/using-translating-to-improve-your-chinese/#comment-121861 Wed, 07 Aug 2024 19:18:10 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=3357#comment-121861 […] Improving your Chinese by translating from another language […]

]]> By: Chinese translation challenge, August 2024 | Hacking Chinese | Hacking Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/using-translating-to-improve-your-chinese/#comment-119782 Tue, 07 May 2024 10:48:52 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=3357#comment-119782 […] For more about translating from your native language to Chinese, please refer to Improving your Chinese by translating from another language […]

]]> By: Real communication: What it is, why you want it and how to get it | Hacking Chinese | Hacking Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/using-translating-to-improve-your-chinese/#comment-118280 Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:53:40 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=3357#comment-118280 […] sometimes also includes the ability to translate or interpret to another language (mediation), but this is less important than it used to […]

]]> By: Training your Chinese teacher, part 4: Writing ability | Hacking Chinese | Hacking Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/using-translating-to-improve-your-chinese/#comment-114810 Wed, 13 Dec 2023 14:29:42 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=3357#comment-114810 […] Translating from another language – While translating something is not exactly the same as writing something from scratch in Chinese, it still has certain merits. For example, since you can’t choose what you want to say (that’s already decided in the original text), you’re forced down paths you’re not used to, diversifying your practice. Translation is also nice because having a finished text means you don’t have to think about what to say, how to compose the text and so on, but can focus more on the sentence level. Naturally, you shouldn’t always do this. If you’re not already a decent writer in Chinese, I suggest you check this guide. Once you have a translation, discuss it with your teacher. This works very well in small groups too, where each student brings her own suggested translation and they are compared and discussed. […]

]]> By: Introducing our translators – Simon Cooper | The Marco Polo Project Blog https://www.hackingchinese.com/using-translating-to-improve-your-chinese/#comment-80270 Sun, 01 Aug 2021 07:59:11 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=3357#comment-80270 […] this post at Olle Linge’s Hacking Chinese website: http://www.hackingchinese.com/using-translating-to-improve-your-chinese/    The article mainly emphasizes the use of translating English into Chinese as a […]

]]> By: Newsletter #9 – May 2013 | Marco Polo Project Blog https://www.hackingchinese.com/using-translating-to-improve-your-chinese/#comment-40588 Thu, 28 Jun 2018 05:52:22 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=3357#comment-40588 […] with Sapore di Cina attracted readers from Italy, while this Russian version of a piece by Hacking Chinese on the use of translation for language learning attracted a number of readers from […]

]]> By: Olle Linge https://www.hackingchinese.com/using-translating-to-improve-your-chinese/#comment-7855 Wed, 25 May 2016 07:36:59 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=3357#comment-7855 In reply to Julian.

I’m not sure I understand what you mean by “conversational to specialized English phrases”?

]]> By: Julian https://www.hackingchinese.com/using-translating-to-improve-your-chinese/#comment-7836 Wed, 25 May 2016 05:03:26 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=3357#comment-7836 Can you recommend any good books with conversational to specialized English phrases accompanied with mandarin translation?

]]> By: How translation can help you learn Chinese | Hacking Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/using-translating-to-improve-your-chinese/#comment-2126 Fri, 26 Dec 2014 08:41:51 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=3357#comment-2126 […] to and from your native language (or one you’re already expert at) is a very different exercise. In a previous post, Olle discussed the benefits translation Chinese. What I’ll talk about here is translating from Chinese into your native […]

]]> By: Will https://www.hackingchinese.com/using-translating-to-improve-your-chinese/#comment-2125 Mon, 15 Jul 2013 09:25:39 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=3357#comment-2125 I like your point, thanks for the article! I think translation is a good way to learn Chinese but read as more articles as you can is also the way I recommend.For example this site: http://www.chinese-stories.com/bookshelf/paragraph.php?bid=12&aid=26
I try to read the short article, although I can’t understand all the vocabularies, but I can guess the meaning which is really helpful for my reading ability.

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