Wikipedia Chinese style guide: translationese (part 1 of 3)

A Reddit post mentioned a Wikipedia instructional page which describes appropriate writing styles for the Chinese Wikipedia. I feel like I should go through it in detail. - This is the Wikipedia page: 🤍zh.wikipedia.org/zh-cn/Wikipedia:%E7%BF%BB%E8%AF%91%E8%85%94 - Thanks to this Reddit post for mentioning it: 🤍🤍reddit.com/r/ChineseLanguage/comments/11ef9hp/resources_for_writing_natural_mandarin_from_a/ This video is part of my "500 hour challenge" where I'm trying to record 500 hours of me speaking Chinese. #BeyondMediocreMandarin #learnchinese #hsk #chinese #mandarin #中文 I regularly use: - Dictionaries: Pleco 🤍🤍pleco.com/ (including OCR 🤍iphone.pleco.com/manual/30200/ocr.html) and MDBG 🤍🤍mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary (Via the Zhongwen popup dictionary 🤍addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zhongwen/) - Example sentences: YouDao 🤍youdao.com/ and Jukuu 🤍🤍jukuu.com/ - Textmarker browser highlighter 🤍addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/textmarkerpro/ - The Q&A sites: Chinese Stack Exchange 🤍chinese.stackexchange.com/ and Language Learning Stack Exchange 🤍languagelearning.stackexchange.com/ I sometimes use: - Chinese Grammar Wiki 🤍resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Main_Page - Chinese Zero to Hero has some useful online video series 🤍chinesezerotohero.teachable.com/ - Dong Chinese for learning characters and watching media 🤍🤍dong-chinese.com/ - Reddit r/ChineseLanguage 🤍🤍reddit.com/r/ChineseLanguage/ and r/languagelearning 🤍🤍reddit.com/r/languagelearning/ - Chinese Forums 🤍🤍chinese-forums.com/ - Handwriting practice: Skritter 🤍skritter.com/ and/or TOFU Learn 🤍🤍tofulearn.com/ - Writing practice: LangCorrect 🤍langcorrect.com/ and Reddit r/kantuxiehua 🤍🤍reddit.com/r/kantuxiehua/ - iTalki (take classes online) 🤍🤍italki.com/ - Hacking Chinese blog (many useful study tips which I largely agree with) 🤍🤍hackingchinese.com/ - You Can Learn Chinese podcast (good for encouragement) 🤍youcanlearnchinese.mandarincompanion.com/ - Laowai Chengyu Guide (useful for chengyu backstories) 🤍laowaichengyuguide.com/ (Please see 🤍chinese.stackexchange.com/q/1120/8099 for a long list of Mandarin resources.)