Is it wrong to gain pleasure from translating suffering? I gain an unhealthy amount of motivation to continue translating whenever I start to...
This is something that I'm still debating on. If I should spend more time to learn the language in order to improve my translations. From my...
This is something that has been bothering me recently. I've been translating a Japanese LN and I keep going back and forth on the order of the...
Hiragana was easy to learn. Katakana on the other hand rarely gets used enough for it to stick. But they appear often enough that I have to check...
It's just Japanese is such a painful language to learn. You need to know THREE written systems. I've basically given up learning the language and...
For Japanese, I go through a process for my translations while using a notepad to put my thoughts and translations while I work my way through the...
It was a love song about a girl watching over this guy as they grew up. One of the lyrics went something like: four, five, six, even as you fall...
Invisible Dragon hurt me less than I expected it to. It is a good read once I got past the grammar. Peerless Martial Arts was a more amusing story...
I'm looking for anything honestly. Incomplete sentences, incoherent strings of text, completely flipped sentence arrangements, translator's...
I'm trying to find the worst of the worst. There isn't any place where people recommend their worst novels that they have ever read... MTL can be...
So I'm on a journey to read the highs and lows of novel translations. I've already read plenty of average to great quality novels, but it is more...
Thanks. I didn't know that 影武者 could be translated as decoy. I thought it was more of an actual body double. But thinking more about it, it makes...
I'm having difficulties trying to translate the later half of this monologue/conversation/speech/talk thing....
I'm pretty sure guns is not a genre, but if it has guns, I will read. It doesn't help that my nationality is American. Action is probably my #1 genre.
I feel stupid now. On the scans they looked close enough for me think they were one ruby text. Now that I am looking at it more closely, they are...
I know normally ruby text is used for phonetics or spell magic. But I have a case where there is a monologue with the ruby text conveying...
Thank you so much yorasu!
I lost records of it somehow... so now I'm trying to find it again. It was like a popish MV with a male soloist (I think that's the word for it....
A Slight Smile is Very Charming Although I'm not sure if it is considered mainstream amongst the romance genre. But it was a great break from all...
Animal style fries... WHY ARE THERE NO IN-N-OUTS NEAR ME!!
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