Notices

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...ighlight=China

Pick up a local SIM card
SIM card with CMCC 100 RMB
Turned on GPRS (I guess ChinaTelecom has 3g?)

try installing SCIM (otherwise no data chinese entry)

Here is what I did when there:
One way is to used a huge 1 page txt list for a dictionary and then grep from the command line to find the translations...

Download City information via wikitravel.org
http://wikitravel.org/en/Beijing
Download large data at wifi hot spots - wifi place (Starbucks etc)
Do not use Boingo - rip off

dictionaries
http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=cedict
http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php
phrases (online)
http://chinese.travel-way.net/

3000 common characters (very nice list you can download so you can view offline)
http://www.zein.se/patrick/3000char.html -

HELP!how to translate English to Chinese?

Solution: ayaaaa, chin chen chon qwuaaa!!!!

(jks use skynet translator i mean google translator)

thanks for your help :-)
how do i use those dictionaries once i download it?

You can download a bunch of Chinese-English, English-Chinese dictionaries from
here.

Unzip the file, and copy the directories you need into
/home/user/MyDocs/mstardict/

Enjoy

nope
at this point, i dun think its working at all :S