Lately, I have been translating a favorite Japanese manga into English to try and keep my reading skills up to par while I am between degrees. I am running into problems with how to keep my translations organized and easily reference to the manga ( Read more... )

また私です~^^　小説を読んでいる間に、下のフレーズを見たんだけど。。。

「一瞬、鋭い視線を投げかける挑発的な男もいるが、それなりに喧嘩が強そうに見えるガタイを持ち、目つきの悪い私に分の悪さを覚えるのか、手を出してくる者はこの店にはいない。ロクなものを口にしてないせいで、頬はこけ、目元も窪んでいたが、それが逆に妙な鋭さに映るのだろう。痩せた体型ながら、影を落とした表情が私に僅かばかりの威厳をもたらしていた。」
これは、どう訳したらいいでしょう？

よろしくお願いします！

Okay first off, I am studying for the kanken (you know the big wicked Kanji exam), there is something that I do not understand, in level 9 there is a section where they give you a workd and you choose between to leap up or to stay still. I am confused because I do not fully understand what this section is asking me to do...is it oppisites? or ( Read more... )

I bought two Doujinshi Anthologies the other day (they're both Digimon, and both in Japanese) and there are a handful of stories where I'd like to know what's going on. Not like, a full translation (I can understand how difficult that would be), but just a summary, like what's happening, any important lines, etc. I don't need a summary for the ( Read more... )

I hope this is alright, if not then I'll delete it~

I really need some manga pages translated, since the volume's not out in English yet. Even a rough translation is awesome! I just wanna know what's going on and things~ Oh, and it's Eureka SeveN~

I uploaded the pages~ page 81, page 84, page 124, page 125, page 126, page 127. The last four pages ( Read more... )

こんばんは～＾＾もっと質問がありますが ( Read more... )

お久しぶりです！＾＾もうちょっとお願いがあるけど。。。

Maybe I'm just being dense, but I can't seem to figure this out:

貴方の瞳に映る私は笑っていた
もう二度と逢えぬ微笑を前に

The first line I translated as "My reflection [the 'me' reflecting] in your eyes was laughing", which was straighforward enough. The second line, though, seems to have an invisible する floating around somewhere, but I still can't ( Read more... )

Hi all! We've been thinking about posting this for a while and only just now got around to it, but for those of you studying Japanese with the goal of translating anime and/or manga professionally, we thought it might be helpful to type something up explaining how to get into "the Industry," based on our own experience. For those of you studying ( Read more... )

Not exactly having to do with translation, but here goes ( Read more... )

こんばんは！エイミーと申します！2年間ぐらい日本語を勉強していて、将来は翻訳家になりたいんです。翻訳することが大好きだけど、「本当に正確にしてるかな～」と思いますね。。。それでは、ちょっとこの歌詞の翻訳を校正して下さいませんか？よろしくお願いします～＾＾

漂流の羽根

作詞/作典：鬼束ちひろ

貴方は期待をして　負担をかける

巨大な揺れに

貴方は期待をして　誤解をする

私も期待をして　それを待つ

愚かな揺れに

私も期待をしては　また駄目になる

その必要の無い街で　2人は何をうろたえたのだろう？

そんな必要も無いこの街で

例えば漂う方がレールは破壊せずに済むと

例えば従う方が指先は触れたままだと

誘惑して

拒絶して

到り着けば繰り返して

今度は何を望むのだろう

貴方は目を伏せて　言葉を探る

小さな槍で

私も目を伏せては ( Read more... )