As for your translation skills into your mother tongue, the more your English improves, the better your ability to understand the English text. When translating into your mother tongue you have to take some aspects into consideration: - Don't always literally translate the text word by word, but always search for the equivalent meaning in Chinese, that might be expressed in a different way than in English. - Don't use too many complicated words in your translated Text. Keep it comprehensible ,simple and clear. - Use dictionaries to search for difficult words and choose the meaning that fits more in the context of the whole sentence. When translating from Chinese into English you have to consider the following: - Think English and build sentences accordingly. - Mind the reverse built English sentence structure, so that the words are ordered correctly and do make sense. - Revise your translated text and don't stick completely to the Chinese text, when it comes to embellishing the English translation by using more appropriate modes of expressions or words, that would make the sense clearer in English then.

Hello sparklingsophie, You better express it in a different way like improving your English or your ability to speak English. Here are some tips in general to improve your English: Practice improving your vocabulary through: *Reading at your level of comprehension simple texts or books and looking up new words . * Listening to English through music and possibly reading the lyrics. * Watching movies in English with subtitles in your mother tongue.. * Chatting with natives online using voice chats or in real life .Mingling with natives is a very good way to be constantly listening to speech in English, even if you don't understand at the beginning. Make lists of words you learned and categorize them, e.g words you use at the office , words you use at school , greetings etc.... - Keep a diary in English . Try to use the new words you learned to write and compose simple sentences .The more you add up to your vocabulary, the more you can form intricate ones. Test your level!. -Take a holiday abroad if you can afford in countries speaking English. It is an opportunity to practice with natives and learn more about the culture and people.You can sign up in language courses in those countries as well beside visiting its historical and monumental buildings and museums . You will be using guiding phrasebooks to help you get along there. The whole process will help you learn more words, expressions and practice speaking. All the above can help you improve your language. Intensifying your efforts will make you improve faster. Concentrating on whatever method you are applying will guarantee you a more steady improvement.

Hi. You can sharpen your English ability and translation skills by learning more vocab.There is a free online talking dictionary of English pronunciation.Just click over the pink words to hear them spoken at www.howjsay.com/index.php?word.

Hi spophie, for me, the best way to sharpen your english ability is to keep practicing! speak English as much as you can by being around friends who can speak it well. Whenever you have spare time, you should also watch English TV programs and movies up to the point that you can understand 100% of what is being said.

There are 3 ways to improve you knowledge of English: 1. read 2. read 3. read Read stuff you are INTERESTED in. Don't read boring learning material you give a *hit about. If your interest is, lets say, hamster, than get English material about hamsters. If you love sex, get erotic literature. If you have no interests at all then your English knowledge will stay poor. And read with your brain switched on. Placing a question in the wrong category does not make you look like a sharp reader yet. PS: SPEAKING is not important. Speaking will not improve your knowledge of English as it only uses your active knowledge, that is what you know already now. You will speak when you are ready.