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- Any help with my Interview questions? 1. Why are you considering changing a job? The company is going though some changes, the chairman who hired me is not in the company any more. The management team still wants me to stay. However, if there is a better opportunity for me, I would like to try something different. 2. Do you want to be a lawyer? Of course I want to be a lawyer someday. License, indeed is the most simple way to tell if a person is a lawyer. However, experience and the ablitiy to solve a problem from a legal perspective is more important than the license. I think I am still far away from being qualified, and need to work for 3 or 4 years until I can deliver legal opinion independently. Actually applying the license in Mainland China is easy, since I have already passed all the exams required. For now, I just think experience speaks louder than certificates. 3. What is the most important quality for being a legal staff of a capital market team? From my working experience in a law firm, I think the most important quality for conducting due diligence is to be well-organized, however the most important quality for drafting legal documents is to be patient. The reason why conducting due diligence need to be well-organized is that when we requesting documents from the staff of the target company, we need to know exactly what kind of documents we need, how it may look like, and why we need it. From my experience, staff from the target company may not always be able to understand the legal documents as we do, to ensure we can collect every document as our checklist listed, sometimes we should explain to them what exactly what we need. The reason why drafting legal documents should be patient is that people should be patient enough in every step of drafting reports, from conducting research, find precedent cases and review the documents.August 22, 201571
- Any help with my Interview self-introduction? I am now hesitating on changing a job. Right after I made up my decision to stay in the current one, I received an interview, from an International Law Firm. So, for the whole weekend, I should work on my Interview preparation. Introduction It is very nice to meet you, Mr. XX and Ms. XX. Let me introduce myself first. I'm Becca, I came from Mainland China, and have legal backgrounds in both Mainland China and Hong Kong. I passed the Judicial Exam of PRC three years ago, the same year when I came to Hong Kong to pursue my further education. I graduated from XXU in 2012 with a master degree in Law. Right after I graduated, I received an excellent offer from AA law firm in Shenzhen, which is one of the largest law firms in mainland China specializes in capital market business. I worked there for half an year. I had the chance to follow several IPO or M&A projects. My role was to conduct the due diligence work for the projects, conduct legal research and draft due diligence report. The reason why I came to Hong Kong is because Hong Kong is more international, and has more exposure to the global market. I just want to step out of the comfort zone to have a more challenging job. I am now working in the BB Company as an in-house legal officer. BB company has been listed in the CC Securities Exchange for 20 years. It is a holding company with 3 subsidiaries in mainland China, and is still trying to expand their business in mainland China. I report directly to the Chairman of the group. Because of the size of the company and that the chairman was a really experienced accountant in this area, I am the only one in the company deal with legal affairs. I have the chance to deal with all the legal works in the group, such as drafting contracts, follow up with litigation cases, conducting basic due diligence in the company's acquisition. My work also includes the corporate part, such as drafting minutes, announcements, preparing for share issue or share transfer documents, general meeting documents, reply the ASX inquiries, etc. The reason why I am considering to change a job is that the company is not going through some changes. Of course they expressed that they want me to stay. But I think if there is a better chances for me, I would like to go because I want to work in a bigger and more professional team. And working in a law firm is always my goal.August 21, 201520
A daily blog: day one
-----今天，我决定开一本网络日记。 为什么呢？ 那，写一本博客可以当作学习语言的方法。 有博客的话 （其实我已经觉得翻译上面的讯息很难啊， 我真正在struggling!（怎么说呢？）。博客让我每天都用目标语言想学的语言（？哈哈）记日常的经历， 我觉得这样可以让我的把语言水平进步得很快。这样我每天又既可以练习我读的语言，又可以让你们说母语的人(how to say native speaker?) 来帮我改正我的错误。 我觉得这样终究会有利于自己的语言学习过程。 从今天开始我会常常会记用日记记录关于我的日常活动，爱好等等。例如会用普通话，葡萄牙语，瑞典语和德语。-------
Having a blog, provides me with incentive to write something everyday, in my target language(s).
博客会(having a blog)给我(provides me) 一种 每天(everyday) 用我想学习的语言 (in my target language) 写点东西(write something)的动力(incentive)。
博客会给我一种动力。Having a blog provides me with an incentive.
博客会给我一种 写东西的 动力。Having a blog provides me with an incentive to write something.
博客会给我一种 每天 写东西的 动力。Having a blog provides me with an incentive to write something everyday.
博客会给我一种 每天 用我想学习的语言 写点东西 的动力。Having a blog provides me with an incentive to write something everyday, in my target language(s)
struggling 努力
既……又…… either……or
既可以……又可以…… either can…… or can……
native speaker 说母语的人
benefit something 有利于something
0 votedAugust 17, 20153- Translation practice 17/8/2015 Mr. Li Keqiang arrived at the temporary mourning hall in Tianjin Binghai New District, and showed respect and mourning over the Firefighters who sacrifice their lives in the 8.12 explosion. He said, both commissioned and non-commissioned firefighters who died in this accidents perform the same responsibilities, and shall be treated as the same so that they can receive the same level of honor and pension. Mr. Li Keqiang, the prime minister of the State Council, said that what is unpredictable is that the number of people who died in the accident and who remained missing is rising very fast, especially for firefighters. The situation is very complicated, several kinds of chemicals mixed together, he added. Mr. Li has visited the families of all died firefighters, not only commissioned firefighters, but also who worked as a fire protection employee of the company, who were referred to as non-commissioned firefighters. He mentioned that both commissioned and non-commissioned firefighters are heroes, and the heroes shall not be treated differently by whether they are commissioned or not. They arrived to the explosion site knowing there would be a danger, and still managed to rescue more than 40 people. He mentioned, according to the Fire Protection Law, they fulfilled their duty and died, so the same level of honor shall be granted to them and the same amount of pension shall be given to their family. As for the hazardous goods stored in the warehouse, he said that the government will by all means investigate on the reason of the explosion and will affix the responsibility of whoever be blamed for the accident.August 17, 201500
吃北京烤鸭
我和我爸爸妈妈8月14日晚上在去了中国饭店了。我们吃了北京烤鸭。太好吃了啊！我们第一首先吃了鸭汤然后我们吃混沌馄饨。第三个菜是鸭皮肤和面包，在面包里面鸭皮肤、酱和蔬菜。我们然后吃鸭肉和蛋米蛋炒饭。餐后小吃我有吃了一个小箱子兰香草冰激凌。我真是太满饱的了阿啊！你可以看照片跟随这个Link看照片：
http://user.qzone.qq.com/1279165308/mood/7c833e4c3972d055fc0f0e00.1Beijing Duck we call it 北京烤鸭. 北京(Beijing)烤(roasted) 鸭(duck)
When "at first" used in the middle of a sentence, we use "首先" rather than "第一".
馄饨 is actually with "饣" rather than "氵" because it is something to eat.
The skin is translated as "皮肤" only when it means the skin of a human being. If it refers to the skin of an animal, we always translated as ~(the name of the animal)+皮. Like duck skin 鸭皮, chiken skin 鸡皮。
Egg rice, do you mean the fried egg rice? If it is, you can say 蛋炒饭。Rice which has not been cooked is 米, but after it has been cooked, we call it 饭。生米煮成熟饭 actually means the rice has been cooked.
vanilla translated into Chinese is 香草。
I am full is actually 我吃饱了。
TRANSLATION
Eating Beijing Duck
I and my parents were on the evening of the 14th August in a Chinese restaurant. We ate Beijing Duck. It is very tasty! At first we ate duck soup, than we ate Hun Dun. The 3rd meal was duck skin together with bread in which we put the skin, sauce and vegetables. Then we ate the duck meat itself with egg rice. For dessert I had a small vanilla ice. I was so full after it! You can see the pictures by following this link: http://user.qzone.qq.com/1279165308/mood/7c833e4c3972d055fc0f0e00.10 votedAugust 16, 20151我就要到一个很有意思的地方去，庆祝我的生日！
我的生日就在一月一号。因为我的生日有这么多很特别，你大概会觉得我本来应该跟我家人庆祝得很大隆重，可倒是我从来并没有过过任何很棒的生日。因为是这样子，我对我自己想“我今年应该到一个很棒的目的地地方去庆祝我的生日”，所以，几天前，我买了一张去香港的飞机票！我会跟我哥哥一块儿去：，然而，因为他住的城市离我的比较远（三百五十公里左右），所以我们打算坐的飞机不一样（下飞机以后，我们打算在我们待的宾馆见面）。我们会在香港这个地方待一个礼拜，我非常期待！我想要看看香港的烟火！过去在电视上我看到过，看起来牛屄了！
请你听听这个：https://www.dropbox.com/s/apc6fdwof0b5y4h/Vocaroo_s1mU8yNoK6Vq.mp3?dl=0（就是我朗读这篇短文）
I'm Going to a Very Interesting Place to Celebrate my Birthday!
My birthday is the first of January. You would think that because I have such a special birthday, I have always had great celebrations with my family, but, actually, I've never ever had a great birthday. Due to this, I thought to myself that this year I should go someone really awesome to celebrate my birthday, that's why I bought a plane ticket to go to Hong Kong a few days ago! I'm going to go with my brother. However, as he lives quite a long way away from me, we aren't going to take the same flight (we plan to meet up at the hostel in which we are staying). We are going to stay in Hong Kong for a week, I'm really excited! I want to watch the fireworks there! In the past I have seen them on television, and they look super awesome!Your pronunciation is really clear and accurate. Although there have some grammer mistake, I can totally understand you.
你的发音很清晰很标准。虽然有一些语法错误，但我可以完全明白你的意思。
If you mean your family members, you should use “家人”。
When we say an event is big or great, we say it is a 盛大/隆重的 event/birthday.
过生日/庆祝生日
我从来并没有过过任何很棒的生日 the first 过is as the verb used to spend your time on birthday, as 过生日；the second 过 means that all the birthdays in this sentence are in the future.
I've never ever（我从来没有过(here is the second 过)） had a great birthday（过很棒的生日）
因为是这样子 means that you are going to explain someting. means 因为
因为这样，means because of this/due to this.
The last sentence should never appear in a formal writing.
一月一日香港的烟花很棒，我去年去了山顶看烟花。:-)
0 votedAugust 16, 20151- 16/8/2015 diary As a mainland Chinese who lives in Hong Kong, changing a job is always one of the most challenging things in life. Official languages used in Hong Kong are English and Cantonese, and unfortunately, both languages are not my first language. I wish I can find a job with mainland China background or facing mainland China market, but such opportunities are always limited. My work is actually legal related, I read and write legal documents in English everyday. The funny thing is that I think drafting legal documents in English is actually much easier than writing something about daily life. I guess the reason that there are different stereotypes of each kind of legal documents. But life is much more wonderful and is something you may never be able to predict. I am a little hungry now. I guess I should go out and grab some Chinese food. Chinese food is my favorite. If you are interested, maybe I can share some with you, of course only pictures. :-) After lunch, I guess my work for today is to prepare my interview in both English and Cantonese. I am so nervous.August 16, 201562
My First Entry
我叫黑科林。 我出生在美國加州聖地牙哥。現在我待在俄勒岡州波特蘭市。我喜歡波特蘭英偉因為我有很多朋友在這兒。在波特蘭伙食很好。現在生活好英偉但是天氣真熱，可是雨季未來馬上就要來了。我是軟件設計公司的老闆。我的公司叫 ”PNDLM“。他需要一個中文名字。我們做手機軟件。我和我的人位好朋友。有時我在中國和台灣。我的朋友 James 和 Lillian 待在台灣。我非常想學習中文英偉我想有一天待在台灣有一天。好，如斯此而已, 謝謝。啊！我喜歡好咖啡。
英偉 often used to discribe a man is handsome.
因為 means because.
There is a subtle differents in pronunciation between 英 and 因. If you are using Chinese Pinying, the 英 is actually "ying", however 因 is "yin". If you are using Taiwanese Zhuyin, 英 is actually "丨ㄥ",and 因 is "一ㄣ". The difference is very subtle, most of people would not even notice it when you speak.
天氣真熱 always means not so good. if you say 生活好因為天氣真熱 sounds like "life is good because the weather is too hot".
雨季未來了 are you mean that the raining season is coming/ the raining season will come in the future? or the raining season will not come?
if you mean the raining season is coming, you can say 雨季要來了。
if you mean the raining season will not come, you can say 雨季還沒有來。
“人位好朋友” this sentence does not make sense. if you mean some friends, you can say 幾位好朋友。
0 votedAugust 16, 20151网球锦标赛
你门们好【1】。我是今天玩儿打了三场比赛【2】。因为比赛开打了很长的时间，我的身体很疼（酸？），尤其是在后背【3】。而且，明天我有另外一场比赛，因为两场比赛属于一个都要计算成绩【4】。所以今晚我要在酒店闲晃，伸懒腰（和？）学中文【6】。我爱学中文，所以我正在耍子【6】。因为我需要上一号洗手间，我要现在结束这个篇文章【7】。谢谢你们看我的篇文章【8】。
【1】你们好 "门"without "亻" actually means door, like 房门(room door). I realize that you use the right character at the end of this article. :-)
【2】打比赛 打球 rather than 玩比赛 玩球。
【3】both 疼(ache) or 酸(sore) are acceptable, or you can even say 酸痛 to explain how your muscle feels after heavy exercise.
【4】I know what you mean. You mean that the results of the two competitions will both be calculated in the end. You can say 两场比赛都是锦标赛的一部分 or 两场锦标赛都要计算成绩。
【5】伸懒腰和学中文 is acceptable.
【6】I don't know what 耍子 means.
【7】do you mean you are going to the bathroom? 上一号 is not actually an official way to say it. you can say 我要去上洗手间 or 我要上厕所(toilet)。
【8】篇 actually goes after the number to mean the number of article or composition. like 一篇文章，两篇作文 etc.
Please feel free to ask me if you have any questions. :-)
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