Hindi translator on Blogger

Hello friends! This post is specifically for my friends in India who may have trouble translating my blog posts। There is now a great feature with Blogger that translates English into Hindi! This translation is into the Devanagari typeface, which is a common Hindi print script. I am not sure how this will translate to the 18 different languages of Hindi or to the many more dialects of theses languages, but this is a start. Most of my Indian friends are from Tamil Nadu (Tamil dialect) so they will need to either read Dvanagari or know how to translate. Hopefully this will be useful to others!

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See below for the translation of the paragraph above:

हेल्लो फ्रिएंड्स! थिस पोस्ट इस स्पेसिफिकाल्ली फॉर माय फ्रिएंड्स इन इंडिया व्हो माय हवे त्रौब्ले ट्रांस्लातिंग माय ब्लोग पोस्ट्स. तेरे इस नो अ ग्रेट फेअतुरे विथ ब्लॉगर ठाट ट्रांस्लातेस इंग्लिश इन्तो हिन्दी! थिस ट्रांसलेशन इस इन्तो थे देवनागरी त्य्पेफस, व्हिच इस अ कोम्मों हिन्दी प्रिंट स्क्रिप्ट. इ ऍम नॉट सुर हाउ थिस विल ट्रांस्लाते तो थे १८ दिफ्फेरेंट लंगुअगेस ऑफ़ हिन्दी और तो थे मानी मोरे दिअलेक्ट्स ऑफ़ ठेसेस लंगुअगेस, बुत थिस इस अ स्टार्ट. मोस्ट ऑफ़ माय इंडियन फ्रिएंड्स अरे फ्रॉम तमिल नाडू (तमिल दिअलेक्ट) सो थे विल नीद तो एइठेर रीड द्वानागरी और क्नो हाउ तो ट्रांस्लाते. होपेफुल्ली थिस विल बे उसेफुल तो ओठेर्स!

तो उसे थिस ब्लॉगर फेअतुरे, इंस्टाल आईटी इन्तो यौर प्रेफेरेंसस.

Song's words sum up my life

Mark Hall, lead singer and creator of music group Casting Crowns, uses words that we can all relate to in his music. Honestly, I have never really liked his music, probably because it is overplayed on Christian radio stations. But I actually listened to the lyrics of their most popular song "East to West" and it hit a chord with me (no pun intended). I was curious as to how this guy goes about his life and discovered that he is very humble and realizes his gifting. I read recently this from him concerning his new album The Altar and The Door:

“When we’re at the altar, everything makes sense,” Hall says. “We know what we’re supposed to do. We know how we’re supposed to live. Everything’s black and white. But somewhere between the altar and the door, when we leave and go out into our lives, it all leaks out, and everything gets gray again. The Christian life is the journey between the altar and door, trying to get the things you’ve got in your head, into your hands, feet, into your life. The Altar and The Door is all about the journey. The realization on the journey, the struggles and the victory of seeing it as possible.” (source)

And here are the lyrics that caught my attention, realizing that we all struggle with this as Christians and dealing with our day-to-day walk with Jesus.

East to West
By: Casting Crowns

Here I am Lord and I’m drowning
In your sea of forgetfulness
The chains of yesterday surround me
I yearn for peace and rest
I don’t want to end up where you found me
And it echoes in my mind
Keeps me awake tonight

I know you’ve cast my sins as far
As the East is from the West
And I stand before you now
As though I’ve never sinned but today
I feel like I’m just one mistake away
From you leaving me this way

Jesus can you show me
Just how far the East is from the West
Cause I can’t bear to see the man I’ve been
Come rising up in me again
In the arms of your mercy I find rest
Cause you know just how far the East is from the West
From one scarred hand to the other

I start the day the war begins
And less reminding of my sin
Time and time again
Your truth Is drowned out by the storm I’m in
Today I feel like I’m just one mistake away
From you leaving me this way

Jesus can you show me
Just how far the East is from the West
Cause I can’t bear to see the man I’ve been
Come rising up in me again
In the arms of your mercy I find rest
Cause you know just how far the East is from the West
From one scarred hand to the other

I know you’ve washed me white
Turned my darkness into light
I need your peace to get me through
To get me through this night
I can’t live by what I feel
But by the truth your word reveals
I’m not holding on to you
But you’re holding on to me
You’re holding on to me

Jesus, you know just how far
The East is from the West
I don’t have to see the man I’ve been
Come rising up in me again
In the arms of your mercy I find rest
(The arms of your mercy I find rest)
Cause you know just how far the East is from the West
From one scarred hand to the other (x2)

(Just how far, the East is from the West) (x3)

From one scarred hand to the other…