. There are many things about Wikipedia that I do not know about because I don't know how to find out or where to look. Richard Gtreves has told how to find out about Wikipedias in different languages. I was surprised that so much has been written in languages other than English. . There are many expressions and abbreviation that I do not understand and don't know where to find an explanation of them. . Why should speakers of English be interested in encyclopedias in other languages? If you are studying another language and have learned what you can from language lessons you need some way to practice what you have learned. Encyclopedias give you a variety of subjects to choose from and preferably are original articles and not translations.. Years ago I tape-recorded the language lessons from shortwave radio broadcasts from radio Beijing. They sent me the printed books to go with the lessons.. I have a Chinese English dictionary sent to me from China. How could I get the articles from the Chinese encyclopedia so that I can view them on the screen? I would like to have it read the text with a synthetic voice so that I could listen to it and have it point to words that it is reading . Is this asking too much? I would like to be able to print it out on paper. Long ago Chinese was written on strips of bamboo, the characters were written one line vertically downward. A hole new the top allowed a string to be used to tie them together. When writing on silk or paper they started in the upper right corner and wrote down. In 1956. the mainland government adopted simplified characters writing from left to right.. I have two writing brushes but no ink stick. Today they use a ball-point pens. How could I get the hardware and software needed to write languages other than English with a computer.? I am dictating this with Dragon’s NaturallySpeaking 7 preferred. It is available in the five English dialects: US English, UK English, Australian English, Indian English, and Southeast Asian English. It is supposed to be able to read back what you said, and what it recorded on the screen. For some reason I can't get these features t to work. I suggest that when writing an article you should keep in mind that some of the readers may be learning the language and so explain some of the terms used. When an abbreviation is used the first time explain what it stands for in parentheses and perhaps add a footnote explaining what it means and a reference to an article on the subject... Merritt L. Perkins