Why do you need an interpreter in China?

Why do you need a professional Mandarin to English interpreter in Shenzhen China?

When you come to do business with your suppliers or customers in Shenzhen, it is better to hire a local guy who can help you overcome the language barrier and the culture difference, and also you will look more professional and serious in front of your partners, the interpreter will help you find a taxi and take you to the places you want to see, just to save your some time and trouble, the interpreter will also intepret on your behalf even when your suppliers or customers have their own people who can speak English.

More interpreters available here, http://www.interpretershenzhen.com/

A group of blogs for translators

Here are some groups of blogs created by the freelance translators in China.
If you are a freelance translator, please register here and your information will be published and easily be found by your potential customers, and it is free to get a blog here.
http://blogs.51889988.com (English)
http://boke.51889988.com (Chinese)

Available website in China www.5ifanyi.com

When you come to China for business, and you are looking for a freelance translator or interpreter, you will probably search online, and find a very good one when you type "Translator Shenzhen" or "Interpreter Shenzhen". But you can't open his link, no way to access to his sites or blog. In this case, you can visit his other websites like www.5ifanyi.com or www.techtradetranslator.com or www.fanyi-gongsi.cn

My best English tutor in Shenzhen

My best English tutor is Robert, he is a private and native english teacher who lives in Hongkong. He comes from America, speaks the native language(American English). He is patient, experienced and nice man. When you are still not so good at understanding spoken English, he talks to you as slowly as he can to let you understand every single word he says, if you don't understand, he always says "in another word", so you will understand no matter how difficult situation he is talking about. If you are looking for a good native-English speaking tutor, I highly recommend him, but he is living in Hong Kong at present. You can find more information from his personal website at http://www.englishteacherhk.com

My new websites and blog

I can't updated this blog, or not very frequently.
So please visit my websites at www.5ifanyi.com, www.techtradetranslator.com
or my other blog at http://www.5ifanyi.com/blog.html

Are you able to access this site in China

In China, it is getting more and more difficult to get access to the sites like FaceBook, YouTube, and Blogger. How are you get access to these sites? Could you please share the tools that you are using?


Best Regards,
Translator in China

I was blocked for so long

It has been so long that I couldn't post my articles. Now I am using some special program to access here, I will keep post what I think and what I am doing, mostly about my interpreting and translating job, from Chinese to English, and from English to Chinese, Chinese here I mean Mandarin, Cantonese, and Teochew.

Translated for an electronic company in Huangqiangbei in Shenzhen

Last Friday and Saturday, this company that made TV driver board hired me to translate, they had poeple from Hongkong, India and Denmark to work with them for an UMPC project. The guy from Hongkong only spoke Cantonese, he had good relationships with this Shenzhen company, the Dane, and 3 indians. So I had to speak Mandarin, English and Cantonese. The Dane guy worked for a German company which took care of the structure and apperance of this device, the indian guys was in charge of the hardware and software design, this Shenzhen company that hired me would be in charge of the manufacturing and sales. They hired me through a translation company, for one and a half days, they paid the translation company 200USD, but this translation company only paid me 100USD.

Long-distance assessment (translator)

Before I can take the Part-III test, I need to have the long-distance assessment, it is actually a training required by the Police. We drove from Shenzhen to Shaoguan, passed by Dongguan, Huizhou, Zengcheng, Conghua, Fugang, and destination Guandu town Wengyuan county.

6 students with the coach were in this car

In the car, everyone had to be under the camera for at least 70 minutes, the camera is like this

we ate at this restaurant, it was not expensive as I would expect. 245RMB for 7 people.

When we got there, we needed to take a picture to prove that we got there, then gave the memery card of the camera to the Police. But there were so many people waiting in lines.

We stayed at a bad hotel which was not cheap at all, 5 beds in a room, with only one toilet in a bathroom, everyone needed to pay RMB130, here was our hotel.
We had to eat at the Police restaurant, 50RMB for lunch and breakfast, but the food didn't worth RMB50. Next day the first thing in the morning, we went to the Police training center again, signed our names on the paper then left.

I am becoming a driver in Shenzhen although I am an English-Chinese translator/Interpreter

Here is my experience in learning driving to get a driving license in Shenzhen, I am showing you how I passed the tests in detail.



I registered on the 20th of January in 2009, right before Chinese New Year holiday. Actually my agent, a driving school helped me for the register in the traffice police. There are many steps you need to follow, you can see the following link, put your ID or Serial Number on it http://www.stc.gov.cn/tois/Index.aspx.
Officially I took one day Theory Training in the school and got fingerprinted in the traffic police test office on 2009-02-11, the training involved questions mainly related to traffic regulations, driving knowledge and emergency response. Then the school helped me make the reservation to take the Theory Test. I passed it with 99 points, it was all done on computer. This is Part I.



Part II included Zhuangkao meaning Pole Test which tests your skill in reversing car without hitting the poles or running over the lines.
See the Pole Test route





I was totally monitored all by computer, no need examiner, only a guard around, and there was a big screen showing me my result. Firstly, I got used to the car and adjusted the car to the perfect spot to reverse without running over Line A, and adjusted the mirrors as well. Secondly, I put my finger over the little thing by Pole 1, then the system recognized me. Started it finally. Usually there are a few mistakes that will show on the screen if you make any mistake like, wrong route, hit pole, run over line, stop for over 2 seconds (allow once), ect. When I was about to finish the test, right before I drove back the initial place(finish line as well) from Park Spot B, I released clutch, the car reversed a little bit instead of going forward. But the screen told me that I stopped once which was allowed instead of wrong route which was rejected, then the screen showed me I passed it. Remember it is possible that the ground is not flat sometimes.

Part II also includes The 3 Test Item out of 9, 2 of them are necessary, they are Stop at the target point/Start on ramp way and Park on the side, the others are optional (pick randomly by computer 2 minutes before you take the test), in Shenzhen they usually are Turn at a right-angle (3/8 chance), Single bridges (1/8 chance), Big Pancakes (1/8 chance), , and S shape road (1/4 chance). On route 1, there are 2 necessary items+Turn at a right-angle +Big Pancakes , On rount 2, there are 2 necessary items+ Turn at a right-angle+ Turn at a right-angle+ Single bridges, on route 3, there are 2 necessary items+ Turn at a right-angle, on route 4, there are 2 necessary items+ S shape road. see the following map



The computer told me to go on Route 1, took the car Number 8. The big screen showed that today there were No Big Pancakes on Route 1 and No Turn at a right-angle for today. when I got into the car, I had to buckle up first and made sure it was tight to the right hole by pulling it up , put the handbrake down and shook it so the computer could tell, shook the gear pole to see if the spring down there worked, then adjusted the mirrors. The computer told me to take the following test item, when I run over the sense area, the computer noticed me as well. The computer didn't tell me anything else until I finished these 3 items, finally the computer told me that I passed. I drove back to the initial place and went to get my record card printed and I signed it.

I have more pictures showing you how I learned.

http://picasaweb.google.com/EnChTranslator/HowToLearnDrivingInShenzhen#

Looking forward to Part III

Part III.

I passed the test yesterday. It was easy if you cared everything related to safety. Here is the route.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=shenzhen&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=36.999937,78.75&ie=UTF8&ll=22.567593,113.960731&spn=0.010541,0.019226&t=h&z=16

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=shenzhen&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=36.999937,78.75&ie=UTF8&ll=22.563848,113.965902&spn=0.010542,0.019226&z=16

What did I do to pass the test. First of all, I needed to go around the car to make sure it is good, got in the car, the first thing was to buckle up, don't forget it, adjust the seat the mirror. Then examiner asked me if I was ready, "ready!", "go!". I turned on the left-turn indicator, disengaged the clutch and pressed the brake pedal, put on gear 1 meanwhile I look at the mirrors(left and right), released the parking brake, then slowly engaged the clutch, when I heard the sound and felt a little shake, released the brake pedal, the car moved, engaged the clutch completely, stepped on the accelerator pedal, disengaged the clutch, gear 2, stepped on the accelerator, disengaged the clutch, gear 3, then I stopped at a traffic light, started again, then the examiner wanted me to put the gear 4, when I did it, he wanted me to pull over immediately, I turned on the right-turn indicator, looked at the right mirror, then slowed down and moved to side lane, slowed down again, and pulled over to adjust the car possion, make sure it was 30cm away from the side line. At last, I disengaged the clutch, gear neutral, pulled up the handbrake, turned on the caution light. The examiner put "qualified" on the paper, and I signed it.

I am going to get the driving lisence in a couple weeks. (2009-05-11)