Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5538 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese
| Message 553 of 844 01 April 2012 at 4:59am | IP Logged |
The Real CZ wrote:
Some shit in Korean sounds really awkward when translating it to English |
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That's an understatement if I've ever seen one. The deeper one gets into Korean the more one runs across sentences that make perfect sense the instant you read them but trying to translate those same sentences to English proves surprisingly difficult since the same concept simply wouldn't be worded that way in English. It really makes you appreciate how much works goes into a *good* translation job.
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vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4681 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German
| Message 554 of 844 01 April 2012 at 9:32am | IP Logged |
Warp3 wrote:
It really makes you appreciate how much works goes into a *good* translation job. |
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And how much you gain at really learning a language, in terms of access to literature, a new way of thinking, etc. I hope we don't learn Korean just to appreciate translator's task! :)
Edited by vermillon on 01 April 2012 at 9:33am
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The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5652 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 555 of 844 01 April 2012 at 3:28pm | IP Logged |
Well, Warp and I used to complain about subs and translations when we were at the
beginning stages. A couple of years ago, I started translating some songs on Soompi and
then moved over to translating articles for actresses (and helping Tiara Diadem translate
some stuff), and all of that made me appreciate the professional translators. It's not
easy making good translations.
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Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5538 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese
| Message 556 of 844 01 April 2012 at 3:58pm | IP Logged |
Which items did you work on at Diadem? Any actual shows or just shorter stuff like news articles, Twitter posts, etc.?
I need to start doing some translation work myself as I think it would be good practice. I used to do some song translation work for my own use (which later changed into simply scorched earth reading song lyrics and skipping the part where I create an actual English translation), but that's about the extent of my translation practice.
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The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5652 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 557 of 844 01 April 2012 at 8:58pm | IP Logged |
Just articles. I've done a couple for Diadem and helped out on some others, but most of
the articles I translate are for my own blog.
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The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5652 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 558 of 844 07 April 2012 at 5:10am | IP Logged |
Got my latest order of books in from Hanbooks, so I'm happy. I've been reading a lot and
watching a lot of dramas while looking up the more common words.
Also I just watched the first episode of the new Lupin III anime. I'm glad there were
subtitles because my Japanese has become terrible, but that's to be expected since I
haven't really touched it in about 8 months.
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Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5538 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese
| Message 559 of 844 08 April 2012 at 8:08pm | IP Logged |
I ordered several books from Hanbooks last week as well, so hopefully they will ship soon. All the ones I ordered were bilingual books, which I find it far easier to motivate myself to actually read.
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Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6439 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map
| Message 560 of 844 08 April 2012 at 8:47pm | IP Logged |
Wow.. seeing this log really puts me into shame... I think I speak worse English and German than I have since I left this forum.. Nice to see some old names here. :)
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