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YeeYan Translates Blogs Posts Into Chinese

2007-03-02T20:24:37Z

Recently I was contacted by the publishers of YeeYan, a website that translates articles from english language blogs into Chinese. They asked for my permission to translate some of Read/WriteWeb's best posts into Chinese, so that people in China can read and comment on them. One of the founders, known as "thunder", told me their goal is "to discover valuable contents in foreign languages and to provide high quality Chinese translations for them." I was happy to give my permission, because I really want R/WW posts to be read all over the world - I especially like that Chinese people can comment on R/WW posts in their own language, thanks to YeeYan. Note that YeeYan always links back to the original article and they don't monetize the translation in any way.

I know that Read/WriteWeb is quite popular in China, Korea and Japan (where CNET Japan syndicates R/WW). So YeeYan is another way for english blogs to really become 'worldwide' - and I hope it goes both ways too. I've long wanted a way to keep up with my friends in Asia, e.g. Danny Kim's Korean Web 2.0 blog, but so far there's been few solutions. Over time, I hope more translation communities spring up to solve this language problem on the Web.

]]> YeeYan is also localized to english, so that bloggers can see which of their posts have been translated. For example, here is the page for Read/WriteWeb posts.

Comment from infonote on 2007-03-02

2007-03-02T22:02:07Z

Google also provides a Chinese translation in Google Translate. Just to let you know.

Comment from PohEe.com on 2007-03-02

2007-03-02T23:43:53Z

Is there anyone translating Read/WriteWeb to Malay/Indonesia language? It is a huge market too.

Comment from Tangos on 2007-03-03

2007-03-03T13:55:11Z

In fact, Yeeyan now translation Chinese blog post into English as well.

Comment from Pandapassport on 2007-03-03

2007-03-03T17:50:42Z

It good to see this kinda thing happening. I really hope to see more of this kinda osmosis through the "great wall" (as it were) that separates the Chinese and English internet.

It benefits everyone.

Comment from Jean Yao on 2007-03-04

2007-03-05T03:16:33Z

The term "Chinese" you refer here is simplified Chinese (in writing). People who learned to read simplified Chinese characters only are limited to comprehend content published in traditional Chiense characters.

There are many readers from various regions in Asia read traditional Chinese characters only (or both).

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language

Comment from Thunder on 2007-03-05

2007-03-05T19:15:23Z

Hi infonote, I am not sure if you could read Chinese. Google translation won't work if you want more than a vague idea of what an article in foreign language is about. I believe in foreseeable future, it will be hard for machine translation to replace human translators, at least for the languages that I am familiar with. However Google Translate is a very valuable tool to make our translator‚Äôs life easier.

Jean Yao, interestingly, Google Translate can help a great deal in your case - check out their simplified Chinese to traditional Chinese conversion. Since this kind of conversion is done character by character (almost), with the following url, you can read Yeeyan in traditional Chinese accurately.

http://tinyurl.com/2djq2a

And finally I would like to thank Richard for writing those nice words about Yeeyan. Thank you for your help to spread the idea of bringing down language barriers to your readers. And thank you and other R/WW authors for producing those valuable originals. We will keep the translation going.

Comment from Jean Yao on 2007-03-06

2007-03-07T02:04:25Z

Hi Thunder,

I tried Google's translation before and the result was more than tradgic. I am impressed with the quality of your translation (simplified as well as traditional). I am from Taiwan, my major was Chinese Literature. I have done documentation management and localization for European clients. I have first hand experience in dealing with machine translation. It does not have the capacity to handle translation work fully.

I can say that I am critical in the quality of Chinese writings. Yeeyan has done a very decent translation. Bravo!!

Comment from yee on 2007-03-16

2007-03-17T06:18:12Z

I'm wondering if it's necessary to translate the posts written by Chinese IT Bloggers into English.

Because most of their articles are translated from other English blogs.To be honest,only a few Chinese Bloggers have the ability to write high quality originals,and even that does not mean their English versions are right for English readers.

BTW,have you ever commented on en.yeeyan.com or cwrblog.net or other Chinese-English blogs?

Comment from Â?§Ëë£Ë°£50ÁöÑÊó∂Â∞ö on 2007-03-19

2007-03-19T19:08:58Z

I can not find where it translated from English into Chinese. Give direct link to the page. Please.

Comment from Deidra on 2007-07-21

2007-07-21T17:00:22Z

Tobelle Bless