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Posts Tagged ‘Translation’

Volunteer/community translators wanted to translate Nelson Mandela’s “Conversations with Myself” (Eng to Ch)

Nelson Mandela’s new book “Conversation with Myself” is scheduled to be published internationally in October 2010.
Nelson Mandela’s personal archives include journals kept during the anti-apartheid struggle of the early 1960s; diaries and letters written in Robben Island and other South African prisons; notes from the post-apartheid transition; and speeches and correspondence written [...]

The Wikipedia of news translation: Yeeyan.org’s volunteer community

Excellent article by Jonathan Stray from Nieman Journalism Lab on Yeeyan.org: The Wikipedia of news translation: Yeeyan.org’s volunteer community: www.niemanlab.org/2010/06/the-wikipedia-of-news-translation-yeeyan-orgs-volunteer-community/

J. Webb: A Chinese Lesson for Social Media People

Jeremy Webb (http://www.webbinchina.com/, The Angry Editor) has published a basic Chinese vocabulary on social media:
Social Media: 社会媒体 shèhuì méitǐ; 社交媒体 shèjiāo méitǐ; 社会化媒体 shèhuìhuàméitǐ; 社媒 shèméi
Blog: 博客 bókè
To blog:  写博客 xiě bókè (lit. “to write a blog” – the noun “blog” in Chinese does not double as a verb).
Blogosphere: 博客圈 bókèquān
Blogger: 博主 bózhǔ; 博客写手 bókè [...]