ECGORDON

Tuesday, 26 July 2011 23:56

I used to have a site bookmarked that was for translations of common words and phrases into either Mandarin or Cantonese. I seem to have lost that one when I got my new computer. However, here is one devoted specifically to the phrases used in Firefly and Serenity - http://fireflychinese.kevinsullivansite.net/

Kevin Sullivan also wrote a chapter for the book Finding Serenity that was edited by Jane Espenson.

JANE0904

Wednesday, 27 July 2011 21:28

This is quite a good one if you want specific words - or use the phrases as plot bunnies!

http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/dictionary.html

MICJWELCH

Monday, 01 August 2011 19:37

The Serenity tabletop RPG book has a really good appendix with just that.

TRAINBANDIT

Monday, 01 August 2011 19:43

Thanks folks, those help a lot.

Also,please, I am old: no get reference-Vat EES thees "Tabletop RPG"? Many thanks!

JANE0904

Thursday, 04 August 2011 04:38

RPGs are Role Playing Games, where you take on a character and then play through the game. Not done any myself, so I can't give you much more than that!

TRAINBANDIT

Thursday, 04 August 2011 16:15

thanks,and I found "Finding Serenity" as well. Like interactive fan fic. Interesting.

EBFIDDLER

Saturday, 06 August 2011 15:11

I use MDGB Chinese Translator at http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=translate - C. It translates Chinese to English and English to Chinese so you can check phrases. It also has a pinyin writer option that you can copy and paste, so if you care about all those ` and ´ and - marks over the vowels, it writes them as well. If you know how to write characters, it has a brush-stroke recognition feature that lets you write in and select characters seen in the episodes, such as on signs. I also refer frequently to Kevin Sullivan's chapter in Jane Espenson's book.

TRAINBANDIT

Saturday, 06 August 2011 20:09

Thanks, nice site.