New Members Queen Cronut Posted July 4, 2020 at 09:44 PM New Members Report Share Posted July 4, 2020 at 09:44 PM Hello! I'm adopted and would like to get in touch with my foster parents in China. I'm from Nanning located in the southern area of the Guangzi Zhaung Autonomous Region but was adopted when I was one years old and emigrated to America. Although the common language of the region is Cantonese, I'm not 100% sure what dialect they speak. I would really love some help in translating their address so that I can learn that language and hopefully reconnect with them. [Image removed at request of poster, because it contained personal information - Lu] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
889 Posted July 5, 2020 at 04:22 PM Report Share Posted July 5, 2020 at 04:22 PM [Personal information deleted.] The address is in standard written Chinese. Even if from a minority group and perhaps speaking a minority language at home, as city dwellers they undoubtedly speak, read and write standard Chinese. So if you want to reconnect with them, that's the language to use. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Posted July 5, 2020 at 04:24 PM Report Share Posted July 5, 2020 at 04:24 PM Nice one @889, was just ploughing through same. Agree with you about the deletion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Members Queen Cronut Posted July 5, 2020 at 05:10 PM Author New Members Report Share Posted July 5, 2020 at 05:10 PM Thank you so much Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shelley Posted July 5, 2020 at 09:47 PM Report Share Posted July 5, 2020 at 09:47 PM I would delete the photo of the address unless you have no problems with it being seen by the general public, perhaps obscure some of the detail and repost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
889 Posted July 5, 2020 at 10:15 PM Report Share Posted July 5, 2020 at 10:15 PM Agree, though not as critical since the personal information on the photo doesn't get indexed by the search engines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted July 6, 2020 at 01:20 PM Report Share Posted July 6, 2020 at 01:20 PM 15 hours ago, 889 said: since the personal information on the photo doesn't get indexed by the search engines. I don't know what the state of the art is currently, but I do know Google will index a scanned PDF, and even if it's not indexing text embedded in photos today, it may well start doing so soon enough. It's just an OCR problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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