Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac will be available to the general public on September 4 in English, German-, French-, Italian-, Spanish-, Russian-, Japanese-, Chinese-, Korean-, Czech-, Polish- and Portuguese-language versions.

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Mr Campbell is proud that, as he takes over, the Met has exhibitions on Babylonian trade routes, the Italian Renaissance, African textiles and 17th-century Chinese watercolours, all planned by his predecessor.

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The lessons are in classical Chinese, which is as different from modern Man-darin as Latin is from today's Italian.

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It even does offline single-word translation between Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

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