[Gllug] Translations between English and Chinese

[Caroline Ford]

On 21 Sep 2009, at 13:17, Jason Clifford <jason at ukfsn.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 13:07 +0100, Chris Bell wrote:
>>   I have been asked to meet a gentleman from China to discuss  
>> technical
>> problems. I only speak English, he only speaks Chinese. Is there an  
>> easy way
>> to translate on screen, for example using ktranslator and locale,  
>> preferably
>> using Debian Lenny? Even single words would help.
>
> Check to see whether you need translation for Mandarin or Cantonese.  
> If
> he is from mainland China it's probably the former but they are not  
> the
> same language so make sure you know which you need.
>
> Jason
> -- 
> I've just started learning Mandarin

If it is written then the two varieties are simplified and  
traditional. China uses simplified and Taiwan uses traditional.

If it is spoken there are a number of different languages that use the  
same writing system of which Mandarin and Cantonese are two of the  
biggest.

Wikipedia has more info.

Caroline

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