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Rosh Hashanah Greetings 2010

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Where to Find Free Hebrew Translation for Rosh Hashanah

Free Hebrew translation for Rosh Hashanah - Click Here!

North America – or even the U.S. alone – may very well have the largest Jewish population in the world (depending upon the source, Israel is also said to have the largest). However, a large number of either secular or non-religious Jewish Americans know virtually no Hebrew. Those who are raised going to Hebrew school may be fluent in Hebrew, but that leaves the rest unable to send a traditional Rosh Hashanah greeting in Hebrew to their friends, family members and business relations. So, for those who are Jewish out there and want to honor their cultural tradition, but don’t know enough Hebrew to send a proper Rosh Hashanah greeting – what can you do?

Free Hebrew translation would be preferable, - right? No one wants to spend a lot of money for a simple Hebrew greeting for Rosh Hashanah. Automated translation won’t work. It might be free, but if you want your Rosh Hashanah greeting to say “Happy Rosh Hashanah 2010, and best wishes for the Jewish new year,” and you use automated online machine translation - you’ll end up with something like “Excited Rosh Hashanah 2010, and favorite wants into Jewish birthday.” Trust us, it’s that bad.

Your Own Rosh Hashanah Greeting Card Translation

So, if you want your Rosh Hashanah English to Hebrew translation to make sense, use a real language translation service – one that uses humans – which you can get here: http://www.tomedes.com/Rosh-Hashanah-greeting-2010.php . The best part is, it’s free as well, for any Rosh Hashanah greeting up to 60 words, or they will provide one for you using the name of the person you provide.

For those of you who are not Jewish - you can still send a Rosh Hashanah greeting. Anyone with Jewish friends, in-laws, clients, business partners or acquaintances, can communicate their appreciation with an English to Hebrew translation of a Rosh Hashanah greeting for 2010, and welcome in the Jewish new year.

Machine translation – The Devil or a Blessing in disguise?

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Machine translation is treated as a nemesis by a majority of professional translation service providers.  But is it really so? I think most translators dismiss machine translation because of two reasons, one is of course valid, machine translation can be awkward to read and more critically, it can contain mild to severe errors. The second reason for many professional translators’ aversion to machine translation is the niggling, maybe unconscious thought that it can hurt their job prospects. This is where I beg to differ.

I strongly believe that artificial intelligence can never replicate the capability of human intelligence. When it comes to machine translations, I believe that translation buyers would always need the services of professional human translators especially when they require important documents to be translated.

Anyway let’s look at the bright side of machine translation, in my experience I have got a number of new clients who have been disappointed with machine translation and have approached me with a reinforced respect for my translation skills. :-) And then there are times when a client is not willing to pay my standard rates on a translation job, since the document itself is not very important. I readily refer them to a free online translation service or software which I believe can do the job well. This makes my client happy and I don’t have to say no a job because it is not paying well enough.

If you ever get lost in China!

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Twenty phrases that might help you find your way back :-)
  1. Hello - nǐ hǎo
  2. Good morning - zǎo shàng hǎo
  3. Good evening - wǎn shàng hǎo
  4. Do you speak English? - nín huì shuō yīng yǔ ma?
  5. I don’t speak Chinese - wǒ bù huì shuō hàn yǔ
  6. What is your name? - nǐ jiào shén me míng zì?
  7. My name is .. - wǒ de míng zì jiào ..
  8. How are you? - nǐ hǎo ma?
  9. Fine, and you? - hǎo, nǐ ne?
  10. Pleased to meet you - hěn gāo xīng rèn shí nǐ
  11. How do I go to ..? - wǒ zěn me néng dào ..?
  12. Where is the railway station? - huǒchē zhàn zài nǎr?
  13. Turn to the left - wǎng zuǒ guǎi
  14. Turn to the right - wǎng yòu guǎi
  15. Can you repeat that? - nín néng zài shuō yī biàn ma?
  16. Please speak more slowly - qǐng nín màn diǎn shuō
  17. Thanks - xiè xiè
  18. Yes - shì de
  19. No - bù shì
  20. Bye  - zài jiàn