Just read an interesting news about the top 10 favourite Chinglish sentences in China. Check out how much you can understand!

1. Good good study, day day up
Actually means: work hard, aim to achieve more every day

2. How are you? How old are you?
This looks like a perfect English sentence. But don’t be fooled. It actually means: Why is always you who have done…..

3. You have seed. I will give you some colour to see see.
This is not talking about plants. It means: how dare you do something like that. I will take actions if you keep doing this.

4. Brothers! Together up!
This may be easy to guess. It means: come on, everybody, let’s rally and fight back.

5. You ask me, me ask who?
If somebody says this to you, he or she actually is complaining you always turn to him or her for help whenever you have any problem, he or she is exhausted.

6. We two who and who
Someone says this actually wants to show how intimate the relationship is between himself and the person he or she speaks to.

7. No three no four
This is nothing to do with the math. It is to criticise somebody or something unprofessional, undecent, inappropriate

8. Horse horse tiger tiger
Don’t worry, you are not in the zoo when a Chinese said this to you. It might mean someone is careless or don’t pay attention to the details. It could also mean the result is OK, just so so.

9. You don’t bird me, I don’t bird you.
Nothing to do with the bird. It actually means if you don’t care what I say or do, I won’t care what you say or do either.

10. People mountain people sea
OK, there is no mountain in China called People mountain. This actually is  to describe large crowds.

It seems that Chinese have different views towards Chinglish. Some have objection to it and think it will have bad influence on English learners in China. Some think why make such a fuss, Britain has British English, States has American English, India has Indian English. Why not China has Chinglish?

Interestingly some native English speakers also start to speak Chinglish after they live in China for a few years. They may find it is easier to communicate with Chinese in this way. This might prove that if something exists, there must be reasons!

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