penang wrote:
Regarding the translation to the Chinese language, may I know will it be the Traditional or Simplified Chinese, or both ?
Thanks !
Hello penang,
Thanks for your interest. We are currently talking to two translators, one each for Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese. Therefore, when Scratch is released with Chinese, it will include both Traditional and Simplified translations.
Which one were you interested in using?
Evelyn,
MIT Scratch Team
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hi Evelyn,
I 'm wondering when will Chinese Scratch will be released. I know that it's not
just a translation thing,there are also some coding works.so could you tell me probably when will Scratch have a Chinese version? I'm dying to have one to teach with.
thanks.
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andresmh wrote:
Yes, it will be released soon.
andresmh, this is a wonderful message. I'm trying to give a 20 hours course at an elementary school here in Beijing using Scratch. Being able to get a chinese version is critical to us since most chinese students/teachers will have problems in understanding english words.
thanks a lot and look forward to it.
Alex
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pcchen001 wrote:
We use Scratch to teach creativity for elementary school boys and girls in Taiwan. I would be very appreciated if Traditional Chinese version come soon. When will it be released?
Hi pcchen001,
Thank you for your message.
The Traditional Chinese version of Scratch will be released by the end of the summer. There will be a beta test ready for translators in a few weeks. You can send me your email address to evelyn@media.mit.edu if you'd like to test that beta version.
Thank you!
Sincerely,
Evelyn
MIT Scratch Team
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I think we might have a Traditional one first and then turn it into simplified is easy. However since Simplified has smaller character set it is easy to get wrong translation back into Traditional.
Simplified Chinese could be understood as zipped Chinese which loses information.
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