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You're welcome Advoca. Maybe also let them know that English only follows the grammar rules about 80% of the time! It works for me! Also, my wife, who is a native Hong Kong girl and speaks Mandarin, tells me that 'welcome you to Beijing' is a direct translation, word for word, from Mandarin. Chinese...

Hello Advoca, I have been teaching English in Hong Kong for quite awhile now and I understand what you are going through. Chinese often want a logical explanation or a rule of why we write/say things in English the way we do. The truth is that a lot of the English language of today does not really f...