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I’m pretty pleased with the title ^_^, haha. Today I want to talk about one of the key things that makes students’ Chinese sound UN-Chinese, which is anaphora & coreference – two phenomena which are exhibited by my strange title for this post.

Tips Miniseries (4/9): Keep Your Pronouns to Yourself, Please

As you are probably aware, Chinese very much likes to avoid repetition of information that has already been made clear from the context – particularly pronoun words like 我 I, 你 you and 他 he / 她 she.  Many English-speaking students, however, copy their English a little too literally into their Chinese and excessively pepper their sentences with superfluous 我、你、他 and 她s.