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Simplified Chinese Translation was changed and it's worse than before.
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Hi Scratch team, I am a Scratch user and teaches Scratch using its Simplified Chinese version.
However, the latest offline editor 456.0.2 has greatly changed its simplified Chinese translations, including a lot of terms and sentences.
As a native Chinese speaker (born from mainland China), I found the new translation is not as good as the old one. The old one is much better for users at mainland China.
Moreover, I found the new simplified Chinese translation IS EXACTLY as the traditional Chinese (which is used by Taiwanese). However, frankly speaking, although both main land Chinese and Taiwanese speak Chinese, their phrase and grammar are slightly different.
Therefore I guess it could be a mistake to direct copy from traditional Chinese for Simplified Chinese. It's much better to switch back to the old Simplified Chinese translation.
Please help me to take a look of this issue and let me know if it would be switch back in the future releases (including web version as well).
Hope this thread finds you well. I use scratch a lot and it's a great product that MIT has created for all of us.
Hi Scratch team, I am a Scratch user and teaches Scratch using its Simplified Chinese version.
However, the latest offline editor 456.0.2 has greatly changed its simplified Chinese translations, including a lot of terms and sentences.
As a native Chinese speaker (born from mainland China), I found the new translation is not as good as the old one. The old one is much better for users at mainland China.
Moreover, I found the new simplified Chinese translation IS EXACTLY as the traditional Chinese (which is used by Taiwanese). However, frankly speaking, although both main land Chinese and Taiwanese speak Chinese, their phrase and grammar are slightly different.
Therefore I guess it could be a mistake to direct copy from traditional Chinese for Simplified Chinese. It's much better to switch back to the old Simplified Chinese translation.
Please help me to take a look of this issue and let me know if it would be switch back in the future releases (including web version as well).
Hope this thread finds you well. I use scratch a lot and it's a great product that MIT has created for all of us.

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