Sometimes it's easy, other times... huh???

[HarryCallahan]

OK, lets put our differences aside.

So those translation questions above, are they for...

A) A Chinese person having their English ability tested.

B) A English person having their Chinese ability tested.

C) Both.

?

[Artem]

It's from 高考. It's basically for Chinese highschool students applying to college. Think the English SAT, but covers more subjects (but who nowdays doesn't take a bunch of SAT II specific subject tests). Basically the Chinese equivalent of SAT + SAT II.

EDIT: As mentioned, the English portion of the test is extremely easy comparing to the rest of the section (as it should be since it's a foreign language on a highschool level). Kind of like SAT II: Chinese is a very easy portion of the SAT test, if you choose to take it.

[HarryCallahan]

Makes sense with the poster being Chinese.

I could actually translate some myself, but I think going the other way (English->Chinese) would be harder. If I have the gist of the Chinese then, being an English speaker, can come up with nice English for it... though writing 'gist' style Chinese will not be very good Chinese!

[heifeng]

Yeah, those are Chinese to English sentences (for exams in China for Chinese students)given Chinese to English translation = (the necessary number of prepositions and words in general)^3 + that horrid usage of 'so'. Which now explains why I heard the word 'so' as often as I did in China...cringe.

Edited June 30, 2009 at 06:56 AM by heifeng
to stay on topic and not pick fights with high schoolers..hehe

[gato]

I think Bluemale_skl probably just finished his college entrance exam. The results are already out.

[heifeng]

Results are out already, eh? Does that mean pedestrians should start looking up when they walk next to tall buildings, just to be extra careful?

[renzhe]

Though Chinese is our mother tongue, we learn it also by practising. Western teaching methods to learning CHinese doesn't work for CHinese, let alone for non-CHinese speakers.

I don't like such exaggerated mysticism.

Chinese is a language like any other. All languages have their peculiarities. You sit down and learn them. End of story.