I decided to make a note of all the ‘movement’ sentences in a Chinese novel I’m reading and that has helped me figure some of the translation sentences using things like 落过去 so that’s given me a bit more confidence...but I’ve yet to run my translation past a native speaker!

Grappling with lots of place/action phrases like something ‘bouncing across a roof’. 蹦蹦跳跳地通过了? Falling past the window above my computer screen 落过电脑屏幕上的窗户? Will have to check!

I have decided to try to translate my favourite weekly column in the newspaper from English into Chinese as I wanted something close to normal conversation but which also describes a scene so has descriptive elements. The column is about when a drone lands in the columnist’s garden. It took me most of the half hour to find a satisfactory way of translating the title. I shall show it to a native-speaking friend when I’m done to see how accurate my translation is.