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Thanks for sharing your resources with us! I will keep on improving myself English Level,and I am always willing to changing ideas with everyone!Your suggestion will help me and some Chinese learners and teachers !

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On the contrary, several of these aren’t even ‘idioms’ as conventionally understood, but 成语 ‘chengyu’, a unique form of Chinese idiom based on Classical Chinese. And they are not even high-frequency chengyu. The organization of this paper has been to find Chinese-to-English correspondences without any regard to utility, frequency of usage, genre/register, etc. This creates a false equivalency, and it could actually impede mastery of usage.

There are dozens of books in English alone, both in PR China and on English-language sites such as http://www.amazon.com, that deal with this rather unimportant area of language learning. It would be far more useful to put to together an article on learning strategies for learning new Chengyu or idioms. Even better, there are two Chinese-learning websites I’ve seen where authors have put together articles on how one should actually avoid certain Chinese idioms and Chengyu. Addressing those issues would be interesting.

True, the classification as “idioms” or “sayings” would be more appropriate in this case. “Slang” are words and expressions used and sometimes understood only by a certain group of people sharing some common features, for example social background, age group or occupation. The article is nevertheless interesting and useful, and you have to be credited for that 🙂