{"id":5046,"date":"2026-06-06T00:11:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T00:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/chinglish-30-mistakes-taiwan-pros-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T00:11:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T00:11:25","slug":"chinglish-30-mistakes-taiwan-pros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/ja\/chinglish-30-mistakes-taiwan-pros-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"\u4e2d\u5f0f\u82f1\u6587\uff1a30 Chinglish Mistakes Taiwan Pros Fix in 2026 | \u53f0\u5f0f\u82f1\u6587"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taiwan office workers send roughly 60 million emails a week in English, and a sizeable chunk of them carry the unmistakable fingerprint of Chinglish (\u4e2d\u5f0f\u82f1\u6587)<\/strong> \u2014 sentences that translate the Chinese structure word-for-word but lose meaning in the process. Phrases like “I very like coffee” or “Open the light” pass the grammar checker yet sound wrong to a native speaker the second they hit the page. This guide pulls the 30 Chinglish mistakes Taiwan pros make most often, shows the fix, and explains the Chinese-thinking habit underneath each one so you stop repeating it.<\/p>\n

What Chinglish Actually Is (\u4ec0\u9ebc\u662f\u4e2d\u5f0f\u82f1\u6587)<\/h2>\n

Chinglish is what happens when a learner builds an English sentence using Chinese grammar, Chinese word order, or a literal Chinese-to-English dictionary swap. It is not the same as bad English. A beginner mistake like “He go to school” is just a verb conjugation issue. Chinglish is sneakier \u2014 the words are usually correct, but the combination would never come out of a native speaker’s mouth. “Play with your phone” instead of “use your phone.” “Open the air conditioner” instead of “turn on the AC.” Both feel right because the Chinese verbs \u73a9 and \u958b fit those situations, but English splits the work across different verbs.<\/p>\n

The cost is real. A 2023 EF English Proficiency Index report put Taiwan at #61 out of 113 countries, citing “literal translation from L1” as one of the top three persistent issues for Taiwanese learners. Recruiters say the same thing \u2014 your CV reads as nearly<\/em> fluent until one Chinglish phrase pulls the whole impression down. Fix the patterns below and you fix most of the gap.<\/p>\n

Direct Translation Errors (\u76f4\u8b6f\u932f\u8aa4)<\/h2>\n

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These are the classic word-for-word swaps. The Chinese sentence is fine; the English sentence is technically grammatical; but no one in London or New York talks like this. The fix is to learn the English verb-noun pair<\/em> as one unit, not as two separate translations.<\/p>\n