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A great artist might join in us on the forum soon..

I have been trying to contact the artists who are not so well known by the collectors, Wang zhijiang or artist name Da jiang shows a great interest in our forum, might join in us soon.

Here is a link for his blog:

http://photo.blog.sina.com.cn/u/2550208285

He was  Ma zhengquan( Ma shaoxuan's nephew) and Ye shuying's student, a great artist.

I hope once I have time to contact more young artists, the forum will be a great fun place for artists and  collectors , really wish the day will comming soon.

Really like the Jobs bottle.:)

Let's welcome Da jiang.:)


Steven

Excellent Steven !!

Way to go...

Hope to see you join in soon Da Jiang  :)

Steven... thank you for this initiative on all of our behalf!  Wonderful idea!!

Bravo Steven! Thanks for taking the lead on this.

Tom

大家好，我已经成功加入论坛。王志江

Hi Everybody, I am here!

wang zhiJiang

非常好 ！

Hi George,

How do you know what Dajiang is talking about, google translation?

Maybe you can let other know,so I don't have to translate every single post.:)

Steven

I just tried out the Bing translator.. http://www.bing.com/translator

I find it necessary to double check..

So first I type in English what I want to say, and when I get the results, I run that script back through again translating back to English to see just how accurate it translated..

I find that being as direct as possible in a sentence by using as many verbs as possible helps...

Hello   Mr  Wang

Welcome to our  Forum

I have  never seen your  paintings  before, but I think they are  really  beautiful

I love  black-and-white  landscape  scenes  like the  ones  you  paint

Where  do you  live  in China?    How  old are  you ?

I hope we can meet   next time  I am in China ( I live in Hong Kong)

Best  wishes  and  welcome  again !

Peter  Bentley 彭 达 理

Welcome  We are all delighted to have you!  I have learned much from this wonderful group and trust you will too!  We all look forward to seeing some of your beautiful work.  Jo

George

Good that  you are  learning  to use  a  translation  engine

Google  translate also  works  very  well.

The  key  is  to  write   in short , simple   , closed  sentences  :   subject  -  verb  - object -  full  stop.

Do not  string long  sentences   together   using   conjunctions,  as  I am   doing  in this  sentence   using the  conjunction 'as'  , because  it  makes  it  much  harder  for the   search engine to  work properly.

Avoid  indiomatic   words    completely !

(One  of  the  biggest problems   of  search engines   translating  from Chinese    to  english is  that  often Chinese   written  by  a  Chinese  person - especially  literary  Chinese -  is  composed of  very long  sentences,  with lots  of  conjunctions  and  commas .  But I notice that  Mr  Wang  Dajiang  is  keeping  his   Chinese  very  simple -  in  fact  I can  read  it  directly   with my own  level  of    written   Chinese  capability)

Cheers

Peter

Yes, this all became apparent to me quickly as I began using it.. 

Your 100% correct, and hope others take note of this.. It is pretty important that each of us take just an extra moment to do our best towards replying to our new Chinese members, and learn how to make a translator like Google/Bing work for us..

I mentioned earlier, that it is not enough to simply type in a string of English text, translate it to Chinese, and post that to reply to a Chinese posting... I find the best results are to take that translated script, and run that back through the translator, and translate from Chinese to English and view what it says... This gives the opportunity to remove, edit, words that are unnecessary, confusing, and or translated incorrectly..

Now take that English translation and translate it again into Chinese..