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In Taiwan, Chinese names have a different spelling in English. Even for some names in mainland of China, like "Tsinghua University", "Peking University", "Tsingtao", etc. This is because the Chinese phonetic system used in earlier years was not pinyin but "Wade–Giles system/ Wade-Giles romanization".

It was the system developed by Sir Thomas Wade and Herbert Allen Giles. They were both English and that is why the system is very easy for native English speakers to spell the names. although it is not actually that accurate.

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I was washing the dishes and Jack came to me. Saying, "nǐ(你) hěn(很) yònɡ(用) ɡōnɡ(功) “.

I was so confused but when I thought over, I knew it was first language transfer. He wanted to say, "You are working so hard". He learnt it proably in a classroom setting when the teacher is saying "nǐ(你) hěn(很) yònɡ(用) ɡōnɡ(功)" for someone who "studies/ works hard." So he used it in the wrong resgister and first language transfer has generalized that the phrase "work hard" can be used in most registers.

I can't really find an equivalent to say "you are working really hard" when someons is doing the housework, but I think the closest way of native Chinese speaker would say "nǐ(你) hěn(很) qín(勤) kuɑi(快) ā(啊) [You are really diligent]" in this context. You can also say "nǐ(你) xīn(辛) kǔ(苦) lā(啦) [You have sufffered from the hard work, i.e., I appreciate that you are working so hard for this] to show your gratitude. This is also concerned with functional grammar proposed by Michael Halliday as it is concerned with how language is used in a range of social and cultural contexts.

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