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What is the difference between Chinese English and British English?

I. Different Definitions

1. Chinese English: refers to English with Chinese vocabulary, grammar and expression habits.

2. British English: is a form of English used in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). It is the predominant language in Britain.

2. Different Compositions

1. Chinese English: Chinese English is a mixture of Chinese and English in the form of a composite character. Learners often use Chinese to make a draft or outline in writing, and then convert Chinese into English mechanically, with obvious traces of Chinese, so it is not easy to be accepted by native speakers of English. Chinese English refers to English with Chinese phonetic, grammatical and vocabulary features, which is a kind of pidgin language.

2. British English: mainly refers to the English rules of the people of England (England) living in the British Isles, and is the official language of the British mainland and the Commonwealth countries. British English is not recognized by all Britons. In some non-English regions, particularly ? Scotland, Wales and Ireland, the ****istence of different dialects is advocated.

Three, different development

1. Chinese English: the earliest Chinese English should appear in Hong Kong. When the Qing Dynasty ceded Hong Kong to Britain, in the cargo handling area, a number of people who often dealt with foreigners slowly learned a few simple English words from the foreigners, and then used their own way of composing words and phrases out of this newly learned English.

Many of these words and phrases have even been incorporated into the English language. For example, "Long time no see!"

2. British English: The reason why the English language is common in the world is because of the power of the British Empire, and the most representative of the influence of British English (RP, Received Pronunciation, more often translated.): Pronunciation accepted by the general public.

The educated, non-dialectal English, popular in the major university cities of Oxford and Cambridge, is the English of education in boarding schools and of radio and television broadcasts), also known as "British accent", is still not recognized as such in many countries (especially in the United States).

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