Examples of how communicating in a foreign language can be so tricky.

1. Chinglish

2. These signs were written as an attempt to communicate with tourists visiting Chinese towns during the Olympic Games in 2008. However, tourists must have had a hard time trying to make sense of them. Can you? If you do understand what they meant by each sign, re-write them in a type of English everybody would understand.

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23. Source : http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=chinglish Organized by Maria Aparecida Moreira