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English Mandarin English translation?

  Date: Dec 11    Category: Unix / Linux / Ubuntu    Views: 310
  

I know that Ubuntu has wonderful language support. I'm just 100% on useing
it. I wish to be able to write emails in english and then translate them to
simplified Chinese. Then recieve emails and translate them back to English.


Next is... Rosettastone software for windows and mac is great! Is there a good
learning option for me to learn Chinese? Or a good option for learning English
for a Chinese speaker?

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Answer #1    Answered On: Dec 11    

I have played with Rosetta Stone through Wine. You cant use voice
support but you can go through the rest of the materials. I read
somewhere about using vmware for this too.

Systems > Preferences > Keyboard
Second Tab: Layouts.
Click ADD and then click Layouts and find China.

I put this on the top menu so when I was learning Russian. I could go
back and forth between us and russ keyboard layouts.

 
Answer #2    Answered On: Dec 11    

I use Google Translate. From the main Google screen, click on "more," then
"even more" and translate is near the bottom on the right.

I always translate a paragraph into Simplified Chinese, then translate it back
(using another tab in my browser) to make sure the meaning remains. Many
English words have multiple meanings, and computer-based translation can't
always guess which one you wanted.

You should ask your correspondent to do the same thing when writing emails in
Chinese.

Do enough of this, and you'll become really good at copy and paste.

I met my Chinese wife on the Internet, and we did hundreds of pages of emails
and chats before she came to live with me in Toronto, all of it using online
translation tools. (I also spent four months in China over a bit more than one
year.)

 
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