/jp/ - Otaku Culture

> Also, I'm not a native speaker in either language.
You shouldn't bother really.

>11646287
But I like challanges and many translators are not native speakers either.

>>11646288
>>11646287
Fuck quick reply.

>>11646288
>challanges
At least get simple errors like that right.

Also the font looks weird, I'd ask some scanlator or translator group for advice on typesetting and stylizing.

>>11646288
Editors are though.

I only have educated guesses what 芸能系 might mean here. The girl might be Akira Seo, fuck if I can tell.

>>11646296
I tried to use the recommended Wild Words, but Photoshop couldn't recognize it, so I stuck with >Comic Sans.

>>11646302
>for what event those are for
Are you going to translate porn books?

>>11646305
Unfortunately, I can see myself doing some hilarious porn lines.
But porn doesn't really need translation in the first place.

>>11646311
Some gets much better with translation but overall it won't matter too much if it's littered with basic grammar mistakes. People might rip you for it on exhentai but at least the stuff gets translated. If it's non-h material, though, I'm not sure if I would read something with a translation like that.

>>11646317
>Some gets much better with translation but overall it won't matter too much if it's littered with basic grammar mistakes.
Good thing I'm a grammar nazi then. Hope it at least shows somewhat.

Also, same here. Sad panda is a great place for translating stuff, but after a point I just stopped caring about them, because I felt that even I could do a better job.

The End

The fuck this might mean?
。。。私蒼香みたいな人を好きになればよかったわ
Did I do it right or did she mean something along the lines of wanting to become more like Souka?

The End

The fuck this might mean?
。。。私蒼香みたいな人を好きになればよかったわ
Did I do it right or did she mean something along the lines of wanting to become more like Souka?

Wow what the hell is with that choice of font?

It's like you want to get smacked

Funniest thread all week.

>>11646340
I'm glad you're rused.

I'm going to post the originals now. If there is anything that needs to be corrected I'm going to re-edit it, so as not to make it utter shit.
I realize how important a proofreader can be, but I had no such person available, neither did I want one in the first place for now.

Use em dashes (—) instead of hyphens and truELLIPSES (…) instead of those gay as HELL periods.

Otherwise, 100% perfect, 10/10 translation.

>>11646355
Neat, thanks for the advice, they're noted.

Is it really that okay? I didn't expect it to be that good.

>>11646362
>Is it really that okay?
It isn't. There are plenty of grammar mistakes.

>>11646366
That's sad.
Correct them and I'll redo it.

>>11646340
y-you can smack me oniichan. i've been a bad imouto and need to be p-punished!

My trip disappeared halfway.

Last page.

As I've said, correct the mistakes and I'll re-release it.

Why are you not translating in/from your native language? You're never going to do a good job otherwise. It's just something everyone needs to realize.

>>11646398
I always learned Japanese using English material, and the English used in translations is pretty simple.

>>11646398
Because my native language is bumfuck irrelevant. I'm going to get nowhere with it.
However I did translate anime with a friend of mine and I think we did quite a good job compared to other subbers, but I'm sure we did a bunch of rookie mistakes too.
Also, I know this (pretty obnoxious) dude who is said to have regularly done japanese to english manga translations for an international group, so I don't think it's impossible. I can't verify how much of it is pure bragging though.

>>11646412
Same here. Many people have to learn a language through another one.
There are just no japanese textbooks or the likes available in my language. Not that they're really needed after the first baby steps though.

>>>/lang/
>>>/a/

>>11646500
>>>/hm/

>>11646412
>>11646429
If you translate for an native english audience without being a native speaker yourself (or living in an english-speaking country for several decades), you're going to suck. That's just how it is. There is meaniing to tone and register you cannot 'pick up' otherwise.

1. You suck at Japanese
2. You suck at English
3. You suck at choosing fonts
4. You suck at typesetting
5. You think you are "rusing" people with your shit MS Paint translations that look like they were made in 2001
6. You can't understand simple sarcasm like in >>11646355 . He's making fun of you, retard.

>>11646398
>from your native language

Honestly, that's an even worse idea than what he's doing right now.

Native speakers tend to not realize that the target language lacks all those idioms and grammatical constructions that sound perfectly natural to them. It's the easiest way to end up with incomprehensible gibberish.

>>11646429
What is your native language? Is it some useless language like Latvian or some shit?

>>11646794
It's probably something latin american because he thinks doing stupid shit is pissing people off

>>11646520
That really hurt me aniki.
But Japan told me there is nothing to feel bad about failing if I gave my best. At least I tried, right?
But maybe you're right. I should just back off and start acting like an elitist prick, bemoaning everything around me just to feel better about myself.

I'm still waiting for those corrections though, so at least I can understand what was so wrong and maybe fix them.

>>11646742
>Native speakers tend to not realize that the target language lacks all those idioms and grammatical constructions that sound perfectly natural to them
Actually, surprisingly many idioms can be interchangeable among languages, at least european ones.
It all comes down to experience though. Takajun for example is japanese, isn't he?

>>11646794
Similarly useless, but it's at least a finno-ugric-altaic masterlanguage, which is closer to glorious japanese than to english. Not gonna tell anything more.

>>11646892
>I'm still waiting for those corrections though, so at least I can understand what was so wrong and maybe fix them.
see >>11646296 and >>11646305 there's more probably but I haven't bothered reading the thing

>>11646892
I liked your translation. Dont give up!

Jp is just jealous cause they arent as good!
Go ahead and ask them what theyve translated, its doubtful they'd give any evidence of their skills cause they have none.

Cheer up.

janitor do your job please!!!!!!!!!

>>11646920
he asked for criticism and he's got it so shut your retarded hugbox

>>11646899
>challanges
It was a typo in my post, not in the translation.
>for what event those are for?
Give me an alternative then. The word "event" should be included, since Akiha is puzzled by those foreign words.

>>11646920
Thanks, I'll cheer up right away when I take my meds!

>>11646944
>Give me an alternative then.
The problem is "for what event those are for" is grammatical nonsense.

Something like "What event are those for?" is what you should have used. I'm not a translator but I would have probably translated the whole thing as "What are those for?" or "What are those clothes for?" and left out the event to make it sound more natural.

Imagine you're a random hoe and you enter a room and someone is wearing weird clothes. You're probably going to ask what's with the clothes and not what event those clothes are for unless you're in the event business and you have events going on every day.

>>11646965
>unless you're in the event business and you have events going on every day.
It is sort of implied that the girl is an otaku, so it would seem plausible.
But thanks, the word order really starts to sound weird now. I added it to the fixlist.

>>11646920
You're a fucking fag. I can tell from your (hopefully deliberate) grammar mistakes and your gay way of using exclamation marks to sound like a 6 year old. Go die.

Also, I am fluent in Japanese and I refuse to translate anything because the scanlation community is full of elitist, yet clueless cock suckers like OP and their hugbox minions. Nice avatarfagging by the way, OP. I couldn't tell it was you from the trip.

>>11647196
Can I suck your dick?

Hey OP, you're not supposed to change the font-size. It's very distracting.