My Chinese has "improved" :)

A few weeks ago, I found a way to translate this blog from English into Chinese (click here for the Chinese translation). Although the translation isn't 100% accurate, it's a rather fluent one. Moreover, if you place your mouse over the sentence in Chinese, it also provides you with the original English sentence from which it was translated. Nifty, heh!

If I'd known about this translator earlier in my primary and secondary school days, I could have written my Chinese compositions/essays in English, and just translated them directly this way. My grades for Chinese would probably have been better (since I often just deleted sentences when didn't know how to describe or phrase things in Chinese, so my compositions tended to be rather... short ) heh. Still, I guess it's a good thing that I never used this website back then, otherwise I'd have been in trouble when the Chinese composition exams came around (no computers allowed in the exams ;)

Now, if I could just find out how to translate this page from English into Greek, then I could say :

"It's all Greek to me... "

Haha ;)


Speaking of languages, on Friday during OCF, a friend prayed for me in Spanish. Although I didn't understand most of what she was saying (except the word "Señor", which apparently is a term they use to refer to God in Spanish, somewhat akin to our use of the word "Lord" ), it didn't matter because I knew that we were praying to and worshiping the same God, who knew and understood every one of us, and knew even the things in our hearts that we didn't say out loud. And that's one of the things that unites us, makes us one, despite our differences in language, race, country, or physical locations.

"Let us be one voice
That glorifies your name,
Let us be one voice
Declaring that you reign.
Let us be one voice
In love and harmony,
And we pray, Oh Lord,
Grant us unity."