Xiaoyu's Blog

New Bing is excellent.  This may be the way that searching is in the future. I'm really excited to see the Internet world 10 years later.

 I use the in-build dictionary app on MacOS every day. It's really easy to use. And for the most important thing, it's free. iOS also has a set of dictionaries, but iOS does not have a dictionary app. I don't understand why Apple does not make an App for the dictionary. I hope there is an all-in-one dictionary app in the new iOS version.

I drink 3 cups of coffee a day. People say you should drink only a little coffee. But I can not live without coffee. Some Chinese people prefer tea to coffee, but I like coffee more than tea. 3 cups of coffee cost many money a day. I should find an excellent way to save money(but not reduce the amount of coffee)

I use Grammarly to correct my English. Recently, I used ChatGPT to improve my English blogs. For the web version of ChatGPT, it is not very convenient to use.  So I use GT4T, a translation software, to get the results from ChatGPT while writing English pages. Before ChatGPT, I used Grammarly every day. But now, I prefer to use ChatGPT in GT4T. If you want to try it, you can get the software at here. http://gt4t.net/ and you can get a coupon code [Fox] for 10% off. I think Grammarly should be cheaper to beat ChatGPT. Or people will use ChatGPT instead of Grammarly.

I saw a WBC 2023 game yesterday. I was China VS Japan.  Baseball is not a popular sport in China. Very very few people play baseball. But in Japan, baseball is a very popular sport.  Even though China lost the game, I think the China team did a good job yesterday. I'm very proud of The China baseball team.

 I use ChatGPT to deal with my work recently. ChatGPT can REALLY do a good job in not only English but also Japanese. I let ChatGPT write emails, letters, and so on. It has done really well. Then I let it answer some questions of the college interview, and it gave me really really good answers even though I can not make them out immediately. It's only 3 months after the birth of ChatGPT, in the future, there must be more powerful tools that be created. I'm very excited to see the new tools and more powerful tools.

 I use several software and tools in daily work and life. I will list them here. Monokakido: A Japanese dictionary App. iOS&Mac DeepL GT4T: a super translation software, PC&Mac for GT4T, there's a coupon code that can use for a long while, it's [Fox] QuickTime player: screenshot and record Typora: to write Markdown Excel&Kingsoft Office: to deal with documents and data Sometimes I also use Online-CAT tools. I do not use PC-based CAT tools like Trados or MemoQ. What do your work tools like?

 Hello, I am Xiaoyu . I am a Chinese-Japanese translator, and also a Language teacher. I do not use English in my work, but I want to improve my English skill, so I started this blog. I will write about my work, life, and the software & tools I use in daily work. Xiaoyu is my nickname, while Xiao means little in English. People often call friends or kids Xiao before their name. It's a way to show friendliness.