Quote Originally Posted by Doogle View Post
Thanks to all 3 of you. Good info. Yes I started out on the HUBB
OK, I've got to ask, what's the HUBB?

I've traveled in many countries without knowing the first word of their languages.
But in almost all other countries in the world you will be able to find someone who speaks a few words of English. Not so in most of China. As long as you are aware of this. You also may not know how poorly electronic translaters work between western languages and Chinese. I find electronic translation between English, German, Spanish and French is not perfect, but it is perfectly understandable. But between English and Chinese often ends up complete giberish. You can usually get by if you stick to very short and simple sentences (3 words: subject, verb, object) it usually works out good enough. But the Chinese person replying to you on your tablet may not know this and will reply to you in long poetic style will can be completely unintelligible by machine translation. Oh, yes, make sure you have Simplified Chinese language pack installed on your tablet as well as pinyin input method so that you can pass your tablet to have people reply to your questions.

It can all be workable but its good to have an idea what its like before coming here. It can seem almost like landing on mars.