English
About this site
Hello English collects my English notes and exam records, and it also records the process of turning that material into a searchable, listenable site. The site is built with the open-source static site generator VitePress and hosted on GitHub Pages. Everything lives in the public GitHub repository; the commit history shows how it was assembled.
The site is bilingual. English pages live at the root; the full Chinese edition — everything that has not been translated yet — lives under /zh/, and the header switcher moves between the two.
What is on the site
| Section | Content | Scale |
|---|---|---|
| Study notes | Pronunciation (with audio), word roots, history, timeline, grammar, tenses | 48 phonemes · 30 roots and affixes · 33 timeline nodes · a 16-cell tense matrix |
| Topics | Deep dives organized by problem type: confusable words, prepositions, root families, long hard sentences, tense contrasts, pronunciation pitfalls, non-finite verbs, comparatives, clause connectors, the passive, conditionals and concessives | 11 pages |
| Exam material | Point-by-point statistics, quick-memorization sheets, a prediction for the 2026 paper, and the past papers | 16 papers from 2010-2025 · 148 verified vocabulary items (including same-type items from the pre-2013 papers) |
Two caveats, stated plainly: the past-paper pages were assembled from publicly circulated recollections and PDF transcriptions, not from an official release; missing content and reconstructed answers carry a consistent marking system, documented in the paper source notes.
What I record
- Exam records. The papers here are the English paper of China's同等学力申硕 graduate-study entrance exam (spoken communication, vocabulary, reading, cloze, short-text completion, translation and writing). The exam structure notes document how the paper changed in 2013.
- Language and word formation. The pronunciation, roots, grammar and tense pages hold the concepts, examples and interpretations I worked out myself.
- For anyone curious about where English comes from. History tracks sixteen centuries of change; word roots explains which language each part of a word came from and what it meant there.
How the content was put together
This site holds concept notes, personal interpretation, topical studies of language phenomena, and past papers with item-type statistics and exam strategy. Pages link to each other by the questions and material they share; it is a record built up incrementally.
Update cadence
A personal project with no fixed schedule. Fixing what is already published outranks adding new material: a wrong character, a wrong analysis, a wrong answer gets corrected and committed as soon as it is found. New material ships in batches; the latest batch (October 2026) added pronunciation audio, word roots, history, grammar, tenses and the topic pages.