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我问谁是翻译者？
The past year I have been learning how to speak and write Chinese (Mandarin), the last two months of which in Beijing. Studying Chinese has been a means to better understand how Americans and Chinese are trying to tackle the energy challenges of climate change. A recent blog entry by Aimee Barnes cites that 50,000 Americans are currently learning how to speak Chinese. But I and maybe others cannot speak or understand Chinese well. A question for me is, who are the translators? How do you know what you know about China, Japan or Germany?
Sociology argues that we are socialized by school, family, friends, work and media. In high school as my teacher lectured about China I slowly became more interested. In 2007 a Shanghai friend and I talked or perhaps debated, the first time we had met. Later the more I thought, the more I realized I needed to visit China myself and not to rely on media as my translator. My teacher and my friend were my translators.
After visiting China the first time I told friends and colleagues that China is working to address climate change. Every time I would hear, "I've seen pictures, China is so polluted, they have an environmental movement?" Ms. Christina Larson of Foreign Policy magazine presented this past Thursday (Sept. 3) on the sensationalism in the media and the challenge of explaining China to Washington, D.C. I would also like to explain China to D.C., but right now I am a poor translator.
我学了一年中文了，这个夏天我在北京学中文。我学中文是因为我要明白为什么美国人和中国人在一起 尝试解决气候变化问题。Aimee Barnes 写到在美国 50,000 美国人学中文。可是我跟别的人说中文，说得又不好又不明白。我问谁是翻译者.你怎么知道什么你知道关于中国还是日本还是德国？
社会学说我们是我们是因为学校,家人,朋友，工作，媒体。在高中我的老师一教，我就对中国有意思。2007年我跟一个上海朋友说话，我们第一次见面。然后我想来想去，觉得我应该去中国。我的老师和我的朋友是我的译员。
我在中国第一次以后，我告诉朋友和同事中国尝试解决气候变化问题。每次我都听“我看了照片，在中国有很煙塵,中国有环境保护论者，真的吗？“ 上个星期四（09年月03日）Christina Larson 小姐在北京说常常媒体说的不对。她说给華盛頓中国难辩解。我也给華盛頓中国难辩解。可是，现在我是不好的译员。
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