3 Mar, 2007 in
Chinese Studies by Fili An
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What’s Different About Cross Cultural Relationships? #11 Opportunities – Cross Cultural Relationships #10 Discrimination Against Cross Cultural Relationships #9 Challenges in Cross Cultural Relationships #8 Positive Aspects of Cross Cultural Relationships #7 Success factors – Cross Cultural Relationships #6I haven’t seen any announcements or mentions of this in either Chinese-related or IT-related blogs, but it seems that Google Translate is finally BETA testing Traditional Chinese, which is used in Taiwan, HK and some other Chinese communities outside China.
Although Altavista’s Babelfish has been providing this service for a while now, it always felt to me like Google Translate is performing better than BabelFish. There are also a few added features that BabelFish doesn’t have, like the fact that the translate engine allows translating text or websites between Traditional Chinese and both English and Simplified-Chinese.
It’s about time. This is great news for Traditional Chinese users.
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