No Chinglish: Reception 1 Welcome Dr. and Mrs. Hill to Shanghai. Let me introduce myself first. I am xxx, the deputy managing director from a Sino-US pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. It is our great honor to invite you here. Nice to meet you. And let’s get our luggage there. I’ve heard of your name for years. When I was a graduate student, two of my papers once referred to your research findings. So I feel so happy to receive you and your family in Shanghai and really look forward our collaborative work in the following half year. We will provide two lab assistants for you and invite one of your associates to join our research project, if necessary. If you’d like to, we may make you live in the downtown Holiday Inn first, which costs a 40-min driving to our lab. And our company will pay for the accommodation fee. But if you don’t like that, the hostel of our company is also available for you, which is a family style apartment, located in the Zhangjiang Hi-tech Park on the side of Huangpu River, with beautiful and tranquil surroundings. And everyone loves it. Wherever you live, I believe you and your family will love the life here. We will endeavor to serve you and make you feel at home in Shanghai. If you should encounter any inconveniences in your life and work, please contact me soon and I am willing to help you out. We will host a reception banquet in your honor. Please come with your family. See you tonight. Please revise it with local English. Thanks 1. In such a case, should I use “My name is XXX” rather than “I am XXX”? In mainland China, we are taught that the first one seems more formal. 2. Is it ok to write “Nice to meet you” in the middle of a paragraph? 3. “Lab assistant” is ok? 4. “Accommodation fee” is ok? 5. How to make “Everyone love the hostel” more coherent with the former words?