
Here's a screenshot of my Gmail converted to Simplified Chinese. Given the limited set of characters I know, I thought it would be challenging to navigate around. Actually, even only knowing a few characters the different sites are easy to switch between. At the top, we see this:
Gmail
日历
文档
网页
阅读器
更多
I only know 1 character from each one of those menu items, but it was enough for me to figure out which is which.
日历: 日 means "day". I guessed that this meant "Calendar". 历 actually means "Calendar", so you have "Day Calendar".
文档 - 文 means "Language" or "writing". The second character, 档, means "file". You can logically move from "Writing file" to "Documents".
网页 - This is the only one I knew both characters for. First you have 网, meaning "Network" (or "Internet"), and second you have 页 meaning "page". This is the link for Googles "Web Pages" feature.
阅读器 - I had no idea what any of these characters meant, but I assumed it was Google Reader based on my old menu. Looking up the characters, you have 阅 ("inspect" - yue4) 读 ("read" - du2) 器 ("vessel/instrument" - qi4). Reader seems to be correct.
更多 - Knowing that 多 means "many" or "more", this menu looked like it would provide more options. The arrow beside it also helped.
So far, pretty easy. I think having the characters in my face all the time like this will force me to remember them better (and in context). Slowly I'll start doing more and more things in Chinese.
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