Which language would a Japanese and Chinese use to talk to each other?
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This depends a lot on the people involved. If you look at older Taiwanese politicians, they might convert to Japanese (the Japanese had control over Taiwan for 50 years, and Japanese was the only language taught in schools during that time). But when you have younger people, they might want to talk in English rather that any of their own mother tongues. My Taiwanese friend explained it once, saying it's either a show of respect for the other person - you don't want to put the other one at a disadvantage by using your own language and the other one being the only one to convert to a different one. Or it can be a clever ploy to put the other person ill at ease when it is known that one of the two people involved can't speak English as well. \nFor the record, Japanese is a very popular language among Chinese speakers, and when the two nationalities meet in a cordial, relaxing way (like tourists) the Chinese speaker might want to convert to Japanese to practice his/her own Japanese skills. That I've seen plenty of times, living in Taiwan.
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http://www.hnhsoft.com/dictec?OVRAW=download%20a%20free%20Chinese/English%20Dictionary&OVKEY=talking%20english%20chinese%20dictionary&OVMTC=advanced\n\nJUST PASTE THE ABOVE ADDRESS IN  & YOUR SET...THIS IS A GREAT SITE OR THIS ONE IS EVEN BETTER\n\nhttp://www.freelang.net/
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this one has Japanese and can translate webpages. -> \nhttp://www.google.com/language_tools
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http://www.tialsoft.com/japanese-translation/
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I am native Chinese.I can help you with oral chinese by chating on Yahoo Messenger
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One is Chinese and the other is Japanese and Buddhist.
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are you expecting to see an answer in Chinese?  I don't think this application supports it (in the English version).
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I depends on what your native language.   The structure of Chinese is very different compared to english.   There are even several Chinese dialects that are very different from each other.   I hear the hardest is supposed to be Mandarin Chinese.
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for me,Japanese is more creative.=)
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use babblefish on altavista.com and traslate it from chinese to english
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Ni Hao Conor, I'd just like to say for the record there isn't a language called Chinese. In China there's two main languages, Mandarin and Cantonese. Cantonese is usually spoken in Hong Kong and Mandarin is spoken pretty much everywhere else.\n\nI think it'd be great to learn Mandarin, it's a widely used language. You could learn it for business or for traveling, or to even have foreign friends.
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If we could figure out a way to do it, I would love to help you learn English and I would love to learn Chinese.  Many of my students parents speak Chinese only and I would like to be able to communicate with them.
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The three languages I would use are English, French, and Japanese.\n\nEnglish is the international language of choice right now (soon to be replaced by Chinese in the next several decades).\n\nThe French have a huge nuclear industry, and are looking to start exporting their nuclear fuel world wide.\n\nThe Japanese also have a huge nuclear industry.
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I think you should start learning conversational Japanese first. Your local community college or community center might have a conversational class for a decent rate. If you are interested in learning the written language, this will probably take many years. The Japanese language uses katakana, hiragana, and kanji to convey there written language. The 'kana' are relatively easy to learn but you will not be able to function in Japan without "Kanji" or Chinese writting. The Japanese use several thousand kanji on a daily basis. Your community college or university is probably the best way to learn the total language.
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I'm good at english.. but too bad.. cause i know chinese already. We can communicate.. take care!
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You might want to start at\n\nThe XCIN Project\nhttp://xcin.linux.org.tw/\n\nkde-i18n-Chinese-Big5\nhttp://www.cims.nyu.edu/systems/platforms/linux/software/package/kde-i18n-Chinese-Big5_3.3.1-2.1.html\n\nThe following is rather old in internet terms:\n\nLinux Chinese HOWTO English Version\nv1.04, 2 June 1998\nhttp://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Chinese-HOWTO.html
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I guess it depends on how good you are with languages :)\nYou should check out http://www.chinese-forums.com.  There are a lot of people with the same question.  Or go to http://www.chinese-forum.net , it's fairly new though.