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Carl’s Recommended English Vocabulary – Part 5

Written by carlgene on 09/11/2017 — 2 Comments

Part 5 is now ready for download! Enjoy.   Download Carl’s Recommended English Vocabulary – Part 5 下载傅君恺英语词汇表第五部 Download Carl’s Recommended English Vocabulary – Part 5 here

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Carl’s Recommended English Vocabulary – Part 4

Written by carlgene on 20/06/2017 — Leave a Comment

Here’s the next batch – enjoy! 第四批已经写完了！   Download Carl’s Recommended English Vocabulary – Part 4 下载傅君恺英语词汇表第四部 Download Carl’s Recommended English Vocabulary – Part 4 here

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Carl’s Recommended English Vocabulary – Part 3

Written by carlgene on 16/05/2017 — 2 Comments

Here’s the next batch – enjoy! 第三批已经写完了！   Download Carl’s Recommended English Vocabulary – Part 3 下载傅君恺英语词汇表第三部 Download Carl’s Recommended English Vocabulary – Part 3 here

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Carl’s Recommended English Vocabulary – Part 2

Written by carlgene on 12/04/2017 — Leave a Comment

Here’s the next batch of vocabulary I recommend my students learn. They represent the most common words used in everyday spoken and written English according to various corpora. 这是下一批我建议学生学习的词汇。按照各种语料库，它们代表日常生活中的英语口语和书面的最常用词语。 In preparing these lists I discovered that some of the most common words native speakers of English use every day are often completely unknown to Chinese […]

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Carl’s Recommended English Vocabulary – Part 1

Written by carlgene on 21/03/2017 — 5 Comments

My students are always very interested in boosting their English vocabulary. However, I noticed that many of the vocabulary books published in China are of a poor quality – they are either full of Chinglish or don’t select the most practical words for students to learn. So I decided to create a few of my […]

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104 More Common Erhuayin Words in Mandarin

Written by carlgene on 17/04/2013 — 8 Comments

This is a follow-up to my previous post about 128 Common Erhuayin Words in Mandarin. 天儿 tiānr: 1. day 今天是什么天儿？What’s the day today? 2. weather 聊天儿: to chat 大白天儿说梦话：to talk in a delusional fashion; to speak as if one’s head is in the clouds; to sound as if one is daydreaming 影儿 yǐngr: shadow 电影儿: […]

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128 Common Erhuayin Words in Mandarin

Written by carlgene on 10/02/2013 — 10 Comments

The following is a list of 128 most common 儿化音 (erhuayin, erhua) words in Mandarin. For the uninitiated, erhuayin is when you add 儿 on the end of a word. Simple examples include 好玩儿 (hǎowánr, “fun”) and 画画儿 (huàhuàr, “to paint; to draw”). Note that I haven’t included incidences where erhuayin is added on the […]

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12 Basic Cohesive Devices in Formal English Writing (with Chinese translation)

Written by carlgene on 19/08/2011 — 7 Comments

I wrote this blog entry mainly for my Chinese students who have trouble with some basic cohesive devices in English – e.g. firstly/at first, lastly/at last, finally/ultimately, etc. However the word and sentence translations here I’m sure will also be helpful for Chinese learners. This is not supposed to be a comprehensive list of formal […]

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