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And will come back to lluou's happy hour

欢迎大家回到露露的小酒馆

On this saturday night

We're going to talk about something light hearted and potentially very interesting

We're going to take a look at minefields in english 中式英语里的没too speaking of the word chengish

I'm sure a lot of you have heard of it

Engengissh chinese

English 中式英语

There has been a debate in recent years about the existence of chenglish

While some people are criticizing for for being corcorrect others that engenglish has alive and should be protected for for cucultural diversity

对式式印的也是有高有扁

Personally

I think there are three types of chengish mistakes

The first category are the things that make sense but sound awkward for instance in chinese

We say 吃药吃东西

So chinese speakers when they translate it into english

They would say eat medicine

However in english

People generally say take medicine

So this would be things that make sense

People would be able to understand you

But it just doesn't sound natural in english

这种呢

就属于无伤大雅

The second type are people from don't make sense

Se people

People from engenglispespeaking country who doesn't really know chinese

Simply wouldn't understand you for example

We to who and who

咱俩谁跟谁

你说出来只有中国人能听得懂

或者只有懂中文的外国人能听得懂

But the third type is a big headache

第三种就头疼了

Think that make sense but make the wrong sense

They can lead to miss understandy

So today we're going to look at the third type

大家准备好躺枪了吗

These are all very very basic words

But you constantly hear people using the wrong

虽然很简单

基本上是小学左右的词汇

但是会经常出错

而且一出错就非常的尴尬

First of all boy and girl bothink the gl people

People end end to think boy and girl simply mean man and woman

But they don't if you are already an adult

And then you're still saying as the girl as a boy or i'm a good boy

It just sounds really really awkward

就好像已经是一个成年人了

然后还是继续用娃娃音说

作为一个女孩子

我们女生

我们男生怎么怎么样

If you speak like that you will not be taken seriously

The correct usage obviously is man 我们or female

Male

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The next one is a 重灾区

Play play is harmless and chinese

We say 到家里来玩啊

下次一起玩啊

That's why people translate them into would you like to play together next time come to my home and play

However in english play if it's used between adults

If you're no longer five year old

Play has a very strong sexual meaning

So if you say would you like to come to my home and play

You're suggesting something else

那就是一些你懂的那种意思

In english you can say play a sport

You can say play a musical instrument play game

But

But you can not play with people unless you're five year old

If you really want to express the idea of et ar as an adult

You probably can use the word hang out

Hang out very commonly used among young people to mean just spend some time together not doing anything in particular moving onto another simple word bad i sometimes here people say you are very bad

He's a bad boy or she's a bad girl

Again bad

In english when used among adults

It has sexual meaning

Especially when you say a bad boy or a bad girl generally means they play around same with the word party

Someone who would like to party is probably someone who has multiple partners

So the word bad

Usually it's reserved for very intimate talk

这一般是情侣间打情骂俏可能才会说的话

You can talk about specific things being bad

You can say the situation is very bad or he's a bad driver

But you cannot say you are very bad or you are bad girl or bad boy

Similar word would be naughty

You can say that about your child

You can say my three year old daughter can be very naughty

But you cannot call an adult naughty

Because again it has sexual meanings

Imagine one time in my class

I had a student who said to me about another student

She said he did something very naughty

Imagine a shock i had in class

I was thinking really in class

光听化日之summer

Similar example would be dirty

Dirty sounds like a very safe word

Because for example

If you

If you don't

Don't wh yourself

Or if you don't change your clothes

Could be dirty right well in english

When you say someone is dirty

It generally refers to their thoughts

A dirty not their appearance

For example

We can say a dirty book

A book filed with sexual content or a dirty movie

If you say he is so dirty

You are generally saying 他很下流

如果你真想说一个人的这个外表

You can 说或者他的家里很脏

You can say he is so messy

Messy means he's not organizor sccocophy

That means he doesn't take care of his appearance of for example wearing close

That he hasn't washed or changed for very long long time scfphy

So we use messy and scruphy try to stay away from the word dirty as an example of some of these words

We just talked about

I would like to share with you a scene from the also popular tv series friends 是大家应该都还记得老友记吧

老友记里面有一个片段

那在这里跟大家分享一下

Monica was applying for a job in a restaurant

And her interviewer asked her to make very salad in front of him

He was very strange

And he was using these words bad and dirty in a very inappropriate manner

那我们就来看一下它是怎么用bad 还是dirty 的

嗯

You will probably get the idea

Let's see

If you as good in person as you are on paper making a salad

Sald can do do a little complplicated you ah just just the salad will be fine

Now i want you to tell me what you're doing

While you're doing it alright

Well

I'm tearing the leus

Oh Ha

Is it dirty

Oh No no

Don't

Or i'm going to wash it

Don't

I like it dirty

Don't

You're called so what are you going to do next

Well

I thought that i would cut up the tomatoes are they firm

Theyall right

You sure

They haven't gone

Bad

You sure

They're not very very bad

Well

What do you think another common one would be hot

This i'm sure

Some of you know

When it's really hot out

I've heard people saying i am so hot

But hot when you use it to talk about people

It means sexy imagine

You walk into a room full of people

You shout out out

I'm so hot

Sounds hilarious right 大写the gunguy instead

You can say it's so hot

The next common work people twenty misuse is silly

The word silly and stupid are very very different

If you say you are so stupid

You've being very angry

It can be very very rude

But when you say you are very silly more floody

好像中文里说的傻样

大家可以脑补一下打ting much out 的场面

We used word silly generally to family to our partner or intimate friends

For example

We can say silly i can never stay mad at you

But silly usually is used in a joking way

When

When you really angry ry sure you

You use used word silly now we come to probably the most common mistake and still a lot of people are not aware of the word special in chinese

If we say 你很特别

Sounds like a great compliment

That's why people translate into engengsh 深深情对望

然后说your special but in english special does not have such a positive meaning

When you use it in this way

When you say someone is special

You're generally saying they are a bit slow

That's because in english

The world special education is offered for children

Offer students who have certain impimprenments

英文里的这个special education

特殊教育

一般是给身体或者智力方面有一定缺陷的孩子

So when you say you are special

It's not positive to really mean 特别

We use the word unique

You are very unique

So you are yourself

You are different from other people

But we can also say you are special to me 对我来说很特别

In that way

You avoid the mind feel to introduce people

We can fall into two traps

The traps of lover and partner

Some people think lover translates into 人

But it's actually 情人

Imagine the embarrassment when you point at your wife for your husband at a social event and introduce him or her as your lover

But can we use the word lover

Of course

We can

But more in a general sense for instance

We can say valentine's day is for lovers and what partner

You also have to be careful about

Of course you can say this is my partner to mean your business partner

But in a social event

When you point at someone and say this is my partner

People will probably think you're talking about life partner 人生伴侣

Especially for the gay community 特别是比如说同性侣

Bagentine

They often refer to each other as life partner

So make sure

You don't make that mistake in the end

We finish was a sentence

What's wrong with you

It sounds correct

Right when you see someone

And they don't look

Well

You probably go up to them

You want to ask 怎么回事儿

You want to show your care and what comes out is what's wrong with you in english

What's wrong with you is very very rude

It's

It's the equivalent of inphraombia instead

We should say what's the matter or what's wrong

Because chances are

If say what's wrong with you

The other person would say what's wrong with you in today's episode lilu has shared with you some of the very basic words and the misunderstanding

They can cause so from now on try to avoid those mind fields and make yourself better understood 拒绝galmore more about ingingisish probprobably would do ing

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