Chinglish (and Englinese?)

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A Sampling of Chinglish: slideshow

Of course, I'm sure I make some howlers when I mangle Chinese (I call it “Englinese”).

Speaking of which, I'm proud to say I'm still on track. As of yesterday, I remembered the meaning, pronunciation, reading ,and writing of the following words for this week (patting myself on the back here, but also testing myself today as I write these):

有意思	yǒu yì si	to be interesting		試	shì	to try
說	shuō	to speak		慢	màn	slow
首	shǒu	[measure:songs]		週末	zhōu mò	weekend
密碼	mì mǎ	password		喝	hē	to drink
愉快	yú kuài	happy		吸煙	xī yān	to smoke
肉絲	ròu sī	shredded meat		得	de	[particle:manner/degree]
能	néng	can (physically)		可以	kě yǐ	can (permission)
會	huì	can (learned)		聽	tīng	to hear, listen
茄子	qié zi	eggplant		青椒	qīng jiāo	green pepper
話	huà	word		事	shì	matter, affair
歌	gē	song		難	nán	difficult
有一點	yǒu yì diǎn	slightly		意思	yì si	meaning
好像	hǎo xiàng	to seem to be		酒	jiǔ	alcohol
念	niàn	to read		番茄	fān qié	tomato
真	zhēn	real, true		做事	zuò shì	to take care of matters
畫畫	huà huà	to paint, draw		寫	xiě	to write
教	jiāo	to teach		飯	fàn	food, cooked rice
點飯	diǎn fàn	to order food		唱	chàng	to sing
無線上網	wú xiàn shàng wǎng	wireless Internet		味道	wèi dào	flavor
現在	xiàn zài	now

There are two words from this week that I keep forgetting how to write, although I can recognize the meaning and pronunciation when I see them:

不錯

bú cuò

not bad

跳舞

tiào wǔ

to dance

Did you notice that there are two words above pronounced exactly alike? SHÌ (試 to try) and SHÌ (事 matter). These homophones significantly complicate my learning.

Add to these some other words that I already know—

SHÌ (是 to be)
SHÌ (市 city,market)
SHÌ (式 style)
SHÌ (視 part of the word for TV)
SHÌ (世 part of the word for world)

—Plus some other SHIs that I know with different tones—

SHĪ (師 part of the word for teacher)
SHĪ (獅 lion)
SHÍ (十 ten)
SHÍ (時 hour)
SHÍ (石 stone)
SHǏ (屎 excrement)

—well, the picture sums it up pretty well.