List of 9 common

Difficulties in

translation of Chinese

language

Chinese language

• Chinese is believed to be one of thedifficult languages to be learned as anewbie.

• Due to globalization, there are manyconcerns wanted to spread their firmin one of the top countries, china.

• Some people hesitate due to thelanguage problem

Translation of Chinese language

• To break the obstacle, folks prefer forprofessional translators for the translation ofChinese language.

• But even the experienced translator finddifficulty in translation of Chinese language.

• Some of the difficult factor are mentioned inthe below slides.

#1: types of Chinese dialect• The Chinese language is not possessed with single

dialect as of English , they are possessed with multipledialects which vary depending on the provinces

• So the translator need to understand the region wherethey are working for and then should continue thefurther proceedings

#2: tones

• As all know, Chinese language is composed offour tones and therefore, they are called as tonallanguage.

• The translator should understand the tones andshould do transcription as well

#3: strokes

• The strokes are major problem with the Chineselanguage which makes the language look morecomplicated.

• The strokes are reduced in modern Chineseversion, but the traditional Chinese is preferred insome cases.

#4: characters in Chinese

• There are more than 50,000 characters inChinese language which has complicatedstrokes making them difficult even for nativepeople. but there are only 20,000 words are inuse.

#5: no grammar

• The Chinese language doesn’t possesgrammar, tenses, etc.. This may be thepreference factor. But to the contrary theycompletely depend on tones. The tonesdecide the meaning of the sentences.

#6: words vary• The words used in Chinese language vary

based on the dialects or even in the regionfollowing same dialects. That is due to culturalgap and difference. This should be managedwell by the translators.

#7: Phonetics

• The tones should be structured by the writings of the language. So the transcription is must along with the translation.

#8 no alphabets

• The Chinese language has no alphabets, every word is characterized, that they frame a set of characters to form a sentence

#9: complicated reference

• The Chinese has complication while searching for the meaning in dictionary. This has made the language even more worse for translation purpose.

• These are some of the major difficulties thetranslators have to overcome while doingChinese translation services.

• Despite all these difficulties , Chineselanguage is an art which will be interesting tolearn and also to write.

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