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And for those who are sick of hearing about WoolfCamp, it’s now time for something completely different…Winterson.com presents a stunning example of Chinese bootleg American films. He bought the DVD for Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith for less than a buck in Shanghai, and was pleasantly entertained to see that it had English subtitles–subtitles that had been translated from English to Chinese, and then from Chinese to English. No, they were not on target.It begs the question, “What were they thinking?! The original English text must have been available!” And it illustrates an important point that people try to ignore about translation: it’s never perfect. You can never fully capture exact meaning between two languages. To further illustrate this point, I’m going to plug the text of this entry into the Babel Fish Translator from English to Chinese, and then translate that output from Chinese to English. Ready? Go.

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Interesting… now, what if we take that text, translate it into Japanese, and then translate that output back to English?

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If Sarah’s going to accomplish something at home, it’s mostly to succeed if it involves:

1. The Internet
2. Other People

Problem: How can we get Sarah to practice her Chinese at home on a regular basis?Proposed Solution:Make a new blog, in which she can journal in Chinese and network it with the language-learning community. There’s no guarantee it will work. She might spend more time tweaking the layout and customizing the settings than translating her thoughts into Chinese. But it’s better than trying to disguise a pill in peanut butter.

Whether you’ve studied Chinese or not, check out this site:http://www.newsinchinese.comMouse over any character and it gives you the immediate English translation as well as the pronunciation. You can basically read the whole thing in English if you let your eye follow your mouse. But what’s really neat is that it gives you an idea about how characters form words and words form sentences… which, to Westerners, starts off as a complete mystery.