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Though both parents today are involved in bringing up their children, in most cases women feel excess guilt pangs when they are unable to spend sufficient time with their family, particularly their children. Most careers are very demanding both of your time and involvement leaving very little energy to give to your family. When children are young this could become a very serious concern. Often one of the parents consider giving up their jobs to look after the children, however the economic condition might not permit this move.

What Could Be The Solution?

The solution is home business or work from home. When you set up a home business or undertake work from home you are able to adjust your time around the demands of your family, without having to compromise on your income. In many instances home business proves to be even more productive than the 9 to 5 job you chose to leave. This choice provides you better quality of life as you are able to put your kids first by fulfilling your parenting duties as well as earning a regular income.

The same applies to work from home. The difference between a home business and a work from home job is the investment required. The home business – since it is a business – would require you to put up some capital unlike a work from home job, which is actually a freelance job.

How Do You Find Reliable Sources For Home Business?

If you run a search on the Net, you will find thousands of “genuine” offers for home businesses. How do you know which one you should choose? There is no foolproof way to recognize a true offer from a scam. However, there are a few criteria that could be quite good indicators:

1. Rags-to-riches business stories should be avoided like the plague. There are no free lunches in this world, so do not believe these get rich overnight offers. Most of these so called businesses are scams which take money away from you, not the other way round.

2. Too-good-to-be-true offers are another no no. If the offer looks too good to be true, it usually is. Once again avoid anything that does not look reasonable or plausible to you. Business is something that is nurtured into an entity, not something that can spring up overnight, even on the Internet.

3. Check the business or website with BBB (Better Business Bureau) which will tell you if the business you are considering is registering with them or not. If not, it might not be reliable.

4. A Scam search is easy to use to figure out if you are dealing with a legitimate company. Run a search typing scam or fraud along with the website you are considering. If there is any disparaging information, you will find it in this way.

How Do You Find Reliable Work From Home?

This is relatively easier to get, though it would take you a while until you find your niche and get the price you deserve. There are excellent platforms for freelancers with elance.com, freelancer.com, scriptlance.com, and the like. These sites ensure that both freelancers (you) and the client get value for their money. You would do well to sign up with such websites for work from home opportunities because they are initially slow. This would give you the opportunity to learn and not be overwhelmed as you tried to work and earn at home.

You may ask yourself, where do I start? Even if I do translate every English word to Chinese, how do I make sure the sentence obeys the Chinese grammar rules? Lets discuss a quick way that many have found useful to translate your English Talk or Article into Chinese.

Step 1. Write your talk in English.
This way you make sure you add all the points you want to make and make sure its logical and coherent and teaches or conveys the ideas you wish to highlight and meets the desired goals.

A) Don’t write too much English:
Often, when you are new to Chinese, everything takes longer to say and read. Often a 5-minute English talk, might take 7 to 10 minutes to say it in Chinese, especially if you are not yet fluent. Also, make sure you don’t write too much. This will not only save you in translation time, but then you will not need to cut out some important points from your talk and rewrite the English and start over again if your way over time.

B) Write very short and simple English sentences:
The shorter the English sentence the betterto translate. In step 2 we will need to use Google translate to help.

C) Use existing Chinese Text
If you are creating a talk based on a book, magazine or news article, use existing phrases and sentences from these sources. If they are not already in electronic form, use a computer scanner to scan in the text. This way, you can use existing specialized words and terms that translation programs might not be able to translate properly. Use the Chinese sentences in steps 2 and 3.

Step 2. Translate English sentence into Chinese Characters
Translate each sentence one at a time to Chinese.

Open a browser window to: Google Translate and select English to Chinese-simplified or English to Chinese traditional. Paste in an English Sentence one at a time and hit translate. How do you know if it translated correctly?

We need to test the translation. Write the same English Sentence at this site and compare the results. (this site gives you a direct translation and opportunity to select the correct English meaning). Also, we could reverse the process though another translation site such as
Remember with Google, the longer the sentence the more chance of an inaccurate translation. You may have to reword or reduce the sentence length at times.

Why do we even use Google translation? It’s because they do put the sentence into a somewhat grammatically correct sentence structure with proper measure words and proper placement of times/dates at the start of the sentence etc. If the sentence did not translate correctly, either rewrite the sentence or if you know the Chinese word that is not translating correctly, enter in the Chinese word directly in step 3.

Step 3. Get Pinyin and English
As mentioned in step 2, we can check the results of our English to Chinese Translation. Open a new browser window to: ThePureLanguage and enter in the Chinese characters from Google. This will not only provide you with a second check that it was translated correctly from English, but provide the important Pinyin to pronounce the Chinese characters to you’re your talk in Chinese. It has also parses the Chinese characters so they are no longer in one large block of characters, but now you know where the words start and end. With the enhanced version of the software, you can add your own words and override the Chinese.

Step 4. Get Chinese Talk Proofread
If you have a Chinese friend, you can give them your document with your translated sentences in Chinese characters for them to proof read and make edits.

Step 5. Make final Document
When the document is returned from proofreading, run the modifications through step 3. Create a formatted document with the Three Line Translation Character-Pinyin-English from the results into a document that can be read out for your talk.

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