apel babel

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For those with Mac computer there are a few translation add-ons that

can give one a fairly comprehensible Chinese to Chinglish. They run

from that seldom used Services slot under your application name in the

upper left corner. These are freewares or very cheap programs.

 

XiaoPinXie will turn GB characters into pinyin with number tones at

the end of each word.

Translate Service from Kavasoft by Francois Besoli does just what it

says. Unfortunately, in a text document it will replace characters

with the English. However a cut and paste stand alone part of the

program will give you both versions in seperate windows. Dongma?

 

ChineseTextConverter will switch Traditional to Simplified and vice

versa. It may be part of the OS X foreign language program.

 

Yazi is a translator also and includes a editable dictionary. I

haven't explored it too much.

 

We all know that OS X has a foreign language typing component. QIM is

much better and adds to that American flag and Chinese flag(s) on the

language program bar on the upper right. Basically you type in the

pinyin and you get presented with a number of character choices. It is

very smart in the character choices.

 

These programs can be easily found with Google.

Most of these programs work best by cutting and pasting into a

seperate Simple Text document.

They aren't perfect but if you want to know if a page is worth looking

at more intensively, its a good way to start.

 

doug

 

Doug taiqi at taiqi dot com

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Here's a google application that presents another option for pinyin

inputting for PCs:

http://tools.google.com/pinyin/

 

Get it while its hot. Apparently google has used a dictionary that comes

from Sohu.com and the lawsuits are flying.

 

-al.

 

On 4/10/07, wrote:

>

> For those with Mac computer there are a few translation add-ons that

> can give one a fairly comprehensible Chinese to Chinglish. They run

> from that seldom used Services slot under your application name in the

> upper left corner. These are freewares or very cheap programs.

>

 

 

 

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