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Q: Why do the Chinese students always say 'fighting'?
I teach at a university and they say it a lot when they are giving each other encouragement, wondered why........
10 years 1 week ago in Teaching & Learning - China
They love all kinds of expressions as opposed to actions. Their writing is filled with empty platitudes as well, "Good, better, best," "Day day up," "Happy every day..."
They feel that they must say something yet say nothing.
It's a Korean thing. It's the Korean version of "Jiayou!" If you watch some of the K-dramas, during a competition or something the crowd will chant, "Fighting!" "Fightin!" "Fighting!"
Since South Koreans are suddenly the coolest people on Earth to the Chinese (look at my post history, I made a topic about it,) everything they do is suddenly awesome and/or correct.
I love erasing this stupid phrase from my students vocabulary.
It's a lousy translation of 奋斗.
As Sinobear suggested, this is one in the demi-ton of ready-made slogans Chinese use in lieu of really doing/thinking something. Some have Chinglish versions, some don't.
AdrianG4 is correct. Korean TV shows are really popular in China, and they're always saying "Fighting!"
ScotsAlan:
My wife is hooked on them. A new episode goes online and she has to get home. If she has to wait a week for the next installment she is grumpy as f*ck 
Hulk:
I keep telling my Chinese friends to stop saying "Fighting!" because it makes them look stupid. But then they just do it again... lol
