Chinglish

Chinglish is the abbreviation of “Chinese English”. Chinglish is a type of English which contains a lot of Chinese vocabulary and grammar, in other words, Chinglish refers to spoken or written English language that is influenced by the Chinese language.

You may wonder why Chinglish is spoken by a lot of Chinese, and the reason is that Chinese people are greatly influenced by our own mother tongue-mandarin. Some people tend to use the vocabulary and grammar which they are more familiar with, so Chinglish was invented. Here are some examples of usual Chinglish. “Good good study, day day up” means that we could make progress by studying hard every day. “Long time no see” means that we haven’t seen each other for a long time. You see, the grammar is incorrect in these Chinglish sentences.

With the development of the Internet,more and more Chinglish words were invented, and most of them are translated from interesting and popular network language. For example, “gelivable” is an adjective, it is a translation of “geili” in Chinese, which means excellent, cool or very interesting; “nubility” is also an adjective, and it’s translate from “niubi” in Chinese, which is a commendatory word for expressing someone’s surprise of something or admiration of somebody.

Nowadays, more and more Chinese people begin to learn English, and our English is becoming better and better, we have every reason to believe that we can balance English and Chinglish well in future.