Beijing has released standardized translations for road signs, tourist attractions, commercial services, sporting facilities and the health and medical sectors, a year-long effort to weed out "Chinglish" from Beijing's public signs to try to improve the city's woeful English before next year's Olympic Games. All English road signs in the city's eight downtown districts that did not meet the standards have been replaced, and those in other areas will be changed before the end of 2007, the South China Morning Post reported. Beijing also expects 4.93 million of its residents to be capable of communicating in a foreign language by the end of this year.
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