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Post by zjules » Tue, 17 Jan 2012 1:21 pm

Hi all,
Would anyone be able to help me with translating a couple of sentences into mandarin, pinyin - so i can read it :-)
Its really very short..

Thanks in advance!

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Post by nutnut » Tue, 17 Jan 2012 1:24 pm

If you get no response, have you tried here? http://www.pin1yin1.com/
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Post by zjules » Tue, 17 Jan 2012 1:54 pm

thanks nutnut, that looks a helpful site.
Actually i need to translate from english to mandarin first, so still need that part.
I was able to pull some phrases online though that i am also testing on that site now..
thanks!

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Post by nutnut » Tue, 17 Jan 2012 1:57 pm

You're welcome! I hope you get it sorted.

I cannot help any further, google translate is not great, but you could try it!
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Post by zjules » Tue, 17 Jan 2012 2:06 pm

yeah, tried a few online and wasnt convinced with the result. Also its something quite important that needs to be correct :wink:

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Post by teck21 » Tue, 17 Jan 2012 2:10 pm

My mandarin isn't fantastic by any means, want to post what you have here?

I can tell you real quickly if I can, or cannot be of help.

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Post by zzm9980 » Tue, 17 Jan 2012 7:17 pm

Have you tried Google translate, they'll give you Pinyin, and sometimes they do much better than other online sites since they can translate phrases in context (as opposed to other sites that do things word for word/character for character.

I can also help, but I'm really rusty.

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Post by DennisChan » Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:52 am

Do you still need help? I could as I'm bilingual.

However, I found google.com/translate to be mostly useful as well in terms of translating phrases to phrases.

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