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With the development of society, our language is changing. Have you ever that our Chinese words such as tofu, zongzi and erhu are in English? More and more Chinese are making a to the English language. Maybe the reason is that there are too Chinese people studying or speaking English.
A study says a lot of Chinese words are collected in the English dictionary every . The Oxford English Dictionary now has 1, 000 words of Chinese origin(根源), such as taikomen (an astronaut from China).
These years, The Wall Street Journal(《华尔街日报》) used the word dama (Chinese pinyin for "big mother") to describe those middle-aged Chinese .
Han Baochen is a famous language teacher at Beijing Foreign Studies University. He said, "Using Chinglish doesn't mean Chinese words are to take place of English words. That's only we can't find the right words in English to say the meaning in Chinese. "In fact, the mixing of the two languages makes it easier to learn a language. A 24-year-old Canadian Lisa said, "My mom can't speak any Chinese, but she tries to remember nihao (hello) by knee and hao. In this way, she can say some Chinese words.
