你好！我叫安迪。 

Don’t understand my Chinese? Don’t feel bad – I don’t know much Mandarin, either! My wife and her mom are from China. When I developed a Django app to help my wife run her small business, I needed to translate the whole site into Chinese so that Mama could use it, too. Thankfully, Django’s translation framework is top-notch.

“East Meets West When Translating Django Apps” is the talk I gave about translating my family’s Django app between English and Chinese. For me, this talk had all the feels. I shared my family’s story as a backdrop. I showed Python code for each step in the translation workflow. I gave advice on my lessons learned. And I spoke truth to power – that translations should bring us all together.

I gave this talk at a few conferences. It was the opener for PyCascades 2020. I also delivered it in person at PyTennessee 2020 and online for PyCon 2020.

Here’s the PyCon recording, which is probably the “definitive” version:

Here’s the PyCascades recording:

Here are the power slides from my talk:

Check out my article, Django Admin Translations, to learn how to translate the admin site, too.