Downloaded 33 times
Uploaded byAparecida Moreira
Chinglish
The document discusses signs from China during the 2008 Olympics that were intended to help tourists but were difficult to understand due to incorrect English translations, known as "Chinglish". It asks readers to try and decipher the intended meanings of the signs and rewrite them in clear English.
Chinglish
- 1.
- 2. These signs werewritten 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.
- 3. 1 2 34 6 5
- 4.
- 5.
- 6.
- 7.
- 8.
- 9.
- 10.
- 11.
- 12.
- 13.
- 14.
- 15.
- 16.
- 17.
- 18.
- 19.
- 20.
- 21.
- 22.
- 23. Source : http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=chinglish Organized by Maria Aparecida Moreira