Linguist translates Olly Richards' collection of short stories

Zhaoxia Pang, Lecturer in Chinese has worked on the Mandarin translation of ‘Short Stories in Mandarin Chinese for Intermediate Learners’, written by foreign language expert and teacher, Olly Richards.

Released this month, the book is a collection of eight short stories, designed to help intermediate learners of Chinese to improve their understanding of the language through reading. Olly Richards' short-story series has been translated into a variety of other languages, including Arabic, Japanese, Korean and more. 

Care was devoted to lexical choices, sentence structures, and stylistic features to ensure the translation remains faithful to the original stories while being accessible to learners of Chinese at intermediate level.

Olly Richards is known for his widely popular YouTube channel with over 600,000 subscribers, providing viewers with in-depth explainer videos on learning new languages. Producing over 30 books, Richards has spent many years providing tools for all to explore new languages through the platform, Teach Yourself. 

Speaking on her role in translating the book, Pang said: “Care was devoted to lexical choices, sentence structures, and stylistic features to ensure the translation remains faithful to the original stories while being accessible to learners of Chinese at intermediate level.”