as they are a lot of Debian translations available, it is not opportune to make all translations new (the need is more an EXPERT SYSTEM in Lisp or Prolog for ex. being able to search for available sentences, checking the environment where it is actually used, and proposing to the translator that stuff to make the job effective). I would willing help and I did spend as I was young a lot of time to learn some Chinese, it is positive (but as not used at all, all is forgotten now: I did buy my first Chinese manual 1965 with the list of 3000 daily words from from Zhongguó wénzì gaigé weiyuánhuì yáiutuiguangshù at wénzì gaigé chubanshè 1959 but publish only 1965 in France), but I am not ready to spend time to translate from English into French or German things translated first from Mandarin into English or perhaps from Cantonese into Mandarin first and then into English (I have a married niece here in Germany speaking only Cantonese and English, and now daily more German but not Mandarin...). Chinese authority did choice, different from Turkish or Indonesian people to continue to use Chinese writing instead of alphabetic writing: This was a wrong decision and will continue to be a major handicap to make Chinese products and services TOTAL attractive in important parts of the world! Please don't worry Google and cooperate willing with it especially on the field of http://translate.google.com ! With translators, it is some kind of nonsens as a lot of Chinese people can live autarkically and autonomously else if they don't speak Mandarin but being able to understand the signs: China will never become a land of great quantity of translators and not find them in the rest of the world at all. it is matter for computers and expert systems (the language prolog did be created in Marseille exactly for such linguistic applications)...