Are there any free chinese translation sites that provide pronunciation?
Hi everyone,
So,I have a mini-fashion show in my school and I have to represent China by wearing traditional clothes and I would love to say something about China in chinese!!Do you all know any site that may translate and give me the pronunciation of what I have translated?I'd love if you all can give me some.Also,which chinese should I translate in?Traditional or simplified?I have no clue about it....I need all the help I can get.Thank you
Tags: china, clue, fashion show, pronunciation, traditional clothes
November 2nd, 2009 at 9:05 pm
I’ve just done a search on Google for "Chinese talking dictionary" and there are quite a few of those (See below), but I’ve never used them so I can not recommend any.
You could also find dictionary with pinyin (requires a bit of training but not that difficult) that represents the Chinese pronunciation (mandarin) with the 4 tones using the latin alphabet.
Concerning the dialect, I would recommend you use mandarin, since this is the official language in China, there is also Cantonese used in Guangdong and Hong Kong, but this is more difficult to pronounce.
For your question about traditional vs simplified Chinese, this only about written Chinese, not for spoken Chinese.
November 2nd, 2009 at 9:05 pm
The short answer is no.
There are sites which claim to translate to Chinese (Google, Systran, Babelfish etc), but the quality of the translation is very poor. They do not provide pronunciation.
There are dictionaries which provide pronunciation for individual words, but not for complete sentences. (And you can’t make up the correct pronunciation by stringing together the pronunciation of individual words – language doesn’t work like that.)
Simplified or traditional merely relates to the writing system. The pronunciation is identical.
November 2nd, 2009 at 9:05 pm
here you are…
paste chinese characters here and hear how to say:
http://text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/
(java based)…
November 2nd, 2009 at 9:05 pm
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