Multiple Languages!

A simple form of Santi's website has been translated into many different languages. Keep in spirit with that fact that the Buddha wanted us to learn Dhamma in our own language we are thus making our website available in as many languages as possible. Anyone who was spend time at Santi would know that we serve a community of many nationalities.

So far it has been translated into:

Chinese people speak some form of Chinese as their native language, the worlds largest language family. We have , both both simplified Chinese for those from mainland China and traditional Chinese for those from Taiwan and Hong Kong. Thanks to all the hard work done by Ayya Jagariya for her hard work in translating it for us, i saw her working on it for many hours. One-fifth of the world’s population

Vietnamese. Australia has 180,000 + people who were born in Vietnam. As you may the Vietnamese community of Australia has been very generous in supporting Santi. A total of 68 million speakers world wide. Thanks to Bhante Mettabha for the translation.

Indonesian Bahasa. One of Bhante Sujato's Supporters in Malaysia knew someone in Indonesia who might be able to translate it in to Indo Bahasa. Thanks to Yulia from Indonesia for the translations.

Sinhalese is the language of Sri Lanka. Santi Forest Monastery receives most of it's lunch dana offerings from the Sri Lankan community. Australia has 70,000 + citizens of Sri Lankan origins. Thanks to Guptila's cousin for the translations.

Our Germen site is fairly new. A lot of the early 20th centry western monks to ordain in Sri Lanka were German. When we had visited Thailand in Feberary, we visited Wat Pah Nanachat and there were about 8 German and Austrian monks there. Thanks to Max from Austria for the translations.

Translations underway and to begin soon.

Hebrew - Underway at the moment. Anagarikaa Galia from Isreal is understanding the task of translating our site into Hebrew, she is however afraid that more Israelis will some to Santi!

French - Hasn't begun yet but hoping to start soon. Anagarikaa Jen learnt French at school and did her high school certificate in French in France, she also lived in France for sometime. Also our lay guest Dania who has our Polish roots (sadly her Polish to not good enough to translate the site) can also speak Fench because was lived in Quebec in Canada.

Did you know that English is the 3rd largest spoken language after Mandarin and Spanish? Thus we are looking for someone who could translate our site into Spanish, does anyone know anyone who might be interested in doing this? We would like to have as many language on our site so that as much people as possible can read our site, it is so nice to be able to read things in your native tounge and anyone who has been to a country that doesn't speak English would know how hard it is to get around, however when we meet someone who can speak our language it's so wonderful we could spend many hours talking, it is always nice to make people feel welcomed to help them to over come their shyness because of language differences. If you would like to offer your time to offer translate the site into a language you know please let us now by sending us an e-mail to the office.