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I’m not sure if I would read that (if it is longer text), but I think lot of others would. It’s just interesting to read from an end users perspective from a country we don’t see and live, not only because of language barriers.

BTW do you use a translator? How common is English knowledge of gamers in China?

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frenchfrynoob@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Just a quick heads-up — I’m a Chinese player sharing some honest thoughts here. I’m using AI to help with translation, so please bear with me if anything sounds a bit off. My goal is to connect, not to sound perfect.

I’m using AI to help polish and translate my writing, but the real challenge is cultural. It’s not that Chinese players are bad at English — it’s that we really care about whether our voices are actually seen and heard.

I originally wanted to post this on an English-language forum, but I’m not familiar with the rules yet, and I haven’t figured out account registration. That said, the Chinese version of this piece has gotten some pretty good feedback, so I do believe what I’ve written here can be helpful to you as well.

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- thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  That’s totally okay and I am glad you found a way to connect to people. I myself use Ai translation (I run the Ai models locally on my machine) here and there. In example I have a blog and sometimes it happens that Chinese sites or forums link to my posted articles. Just out of curiosity I use translation tool to see what they are saying. I know sometimes can translation from a very different language like Chinese to English sound off, unless you use the highend models. In your case it didn’t sound wrong, the opposite in fact, it sounded too “perfect”.
  
  For longer articles and posts (I mean if it is much longer than the initial post here), I would suggest to add a disclaimer at the end. Just in case something sounds strange or is plain and simple wrong (can happen with Ai). And nobody can say you would hide using Ai or anything like that. There is absolutely no problem in using Ai to translate text, so keep doing it. Thanks for your replies and the time for explanation.
  
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  - Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I’d say it spunds a bit elaborate.
    That OP used AI explains why it sounded like it did.
    
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  - frenchfrynoob@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    thanks
    
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