Google’s Chinese translator.
Those who have already been through the process of adopting a child from China will, I'm wagering, immediately understand why Google's latest web thing is so cool. Just take a look:
This is a page from a Chinese music-and-food blog, translated by Google's new Chinese translator.
That is, it's a translator that doesn't do pinyin - it translates written Chinese characters into English sentences. That (more or less) make sense.
Like, here's the original front page of that blog. And here's what the writer is actually saying. (Duck's blood? Um, delicious.)
Why is this remarkable? Well, for one thing, it's already working better than Babelfish as… [more]
Birth Parent Search
I've just been pointed toward a post on the Adoptive Parents-China yahoogroup (also known as "the big group") wherein is advertised the creation of a rather interesting, smaller group - the China Birth Family Search group. Some people, you know, have already gotten in contact with birth parents in China, despite all the odds against it. You might already have read some birth parent stories featured here or elsewhere. And, most importantly, your kids might be more interested in this than you could possibly know at some point in the future. And you want to give the world, right? Well, here's a part of the world. I don't know exactly what's going on in… [more]
