Cupcake Paradise

Posts : 34 Join date : 2010-12-17

I just signed up here! I am currently studying abroad in Osaka right now, so I am having a wonderful time:) Japan is absolutely wonderful, and I love learning Japanese and Kansai ben as well. I would like to try translating manga sometime to see what it's like. I have so far studied Japanese for 11 months, which will soon become one year when January ends, and I plan on continuing my studies even after I get home.
こんにちわ！カップケーキです！アメリカから来ました。今日本に留学します。日本に来る前に八ヶ月ぐらい日本語を勉強しました。大阪市と京都はきれいいで楽です。毎日新しい事を習っているのでいつか漫画を英語に漫画を訳してみたいです。よろしくお願いします！

Admin Posts : 73 Join date : 2010-11-17

Hiya Decadent,

What's Osaka like this time of year?
I've always wanted to visit japan. Does it look like how the mangas portray it?
And what happens when yu study abroad in japan?
Do you live in a dormitory? Live with a local family as an exchange student?
Or maybe yu rent yur own place?
Heh...it must be so nice to live in japan ^^
Bet you could get yur hands on all the mangas yu want *droool*

^^ Hey, if you wanna try translating manga
in the future, join our team!!
I <3 thee

I've got a nice kansai-ben manga you could
use to practice yur japanese.
Good work

Subject: Re: Cupcake Paradise 2010-12-17, 17:57

Irie wrote:: ^^ Hey, if you wanna try translating manga
in the future, join our team!!

I've got a nice kansai-ben manga you could use
to practice yur japanese.

*Pushes Irie away* Ignore her- she has this compulsion to recruit anything that's alive and has two legs.

Whether or not you'd like to join us, Manga Translation is a good way of polishing skills. I'm not a tler myself ( i dont understand a lick of jap you posted), I've been told that simple series (shounen series in particular) don't require as much kanji knowlegde then one would expect. I think it has to do with the fact that they tend to have furigana in them so its easier. Stuff like seinen, which is geared towards adults has less furigana and more wordiness will probably be harder, but will definitely help your vocab.

There's a lot of resources out there for tlers too: such as mangahelpers and #translators, an irc channel to help other TLers if they need to figure something out. There are also other tlers in the group you join that u can ask (example: In IA, we have a jap tl who's on constantly in our irc channel. We are always bugging him if we need verification or some minor tl from him.) I also have a link that has a tutorial on how to make a script and a list of resources for newbie tlers (which reminds me, I should post that in the training section.) Either way, if you ever take the plunge, there's help.

Admin Posts : 73 Join date : 2010-11-17

*tackles tyre to the ground and holds her in a headlock*

Lol! Yur the one who's trying to get her to tl for us!...pfft XD
The slightest mention of a tler and yur practically foaming at the lips. Go edit Diece! Nao! lol XD Don't make me break out the whips
hehehe

Subject: Re: Cupcake Paradise 2010-12-17, 18:13

Irie wrote:: *tackles tyre to the ground and holds her in a headlock*

Lol! Yur the one who's trying to get her to tl for us!...pfft XD
The slightly mention of a tler and yur practically foaming at the lips.
Go clean Diece! Nao! lol XD

*Flips Irie and holds her in a headlock. * Uh-hu... and your an innocent lamb for not even mentioning that kansai-ben manga you've been itching to do...

Excuse us. No one saw anything!! *drags irie away before we embarras ourselves further*

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:
Ow ow ow...
Not so hard, tyre! Yur gonna tear my ears off....

Deeeecaaaadeeeeent..... jooooin uuuussss.....
N-noooooooooo

Posts : 34 Join date : 2010-12-17

I think that when it comes to everyday scenery in Japan, Bakuman is very accurate. As for Osaka, I say it looks a lot like how the Detective Conan anime series depicts it. I am currently living with a host family right now. At first, it was hard to get used to them, mainly the children, but now I get along a lot better with them. And especially from the kids, I learned a little bit of Kansai ben. Kyoto is definitely the place you want to go if you want to see traditional Japan, and is especially gorgeous in the fall with all of the leaves changing color. I would love to translate for you guys, but do I need to take a test first, or fill in an application or something? As for kanji, I know about around 180-200 kanji, it's not much, but it will get closer to 300 soon, and I have a wonderrful kanji dictionary add-on installed on my computer as well. And there is manga everywhere here, it's awesome. Also I was given a book from the Osaka Communication Arts school, and it features the work of their students, they're really nicely illustrated manga in there, so it is neat to be able to see it. I got to see how anime become animated, that was a lot of fun.

Subject: Re: Cupcake Paradise 2010-12-18, 00:36

Decadent Cupcake wrote:: I think that when it comes to everyday scenery in Japan, Bakuman is very accurate. As for Osaka, I say it looks a lot like how the Detective Conan anime series depicts it. I am currently living with a host family right now. At first, it was hard to get used to them, mainly the children, but now I get along a lot better with them. And especially from the kids, I learned a little bit of Kansai ben. Kyoto is definitely the place you want to go if you want to see traditional Japan, and is especially gorgeous in the fall with all of the leaves changing color. I would love to translate for you guys, but do I need to take a test first, or fill in an application or something? As for kanji, I know about around 180-200 kanji, it's not much, but it will get closer to 300 soon, and I have a wonderrful kanji dictionary add-on installed on my computer as well. And there is manga everywhere here, it's awesome. Also I was given a book from the Osaka Communication Arts school, and it features the work of their students, they're really nicely illustrated manga in there, so it is neat to be able to see it. I got to see how anime become animated, that was a lot of fun.

Oh that sounds sooo cool. Yeah, I heard about Kyoto being a very traditional place since I have friends who are doing a study abroad program over in Japan. Though, I have to say most of them go to Tokyo. I would love to go to japan to visit (and buy as much manga as possible to bring back) , but I have no money.... T-T. I actually applied to go to Japan but it was a high demand program (read: I didnt get in) ; The good thing was I still got to go somewhere (the UK). As for translation, we don't have any exam for translators, we simply communicate with you and try to match you with a series that you like and is within your ability. I'll email you the details.

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I'm looking forward to it :D

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Yay, I finally started translating Now to make sense of that chicken scratch on the gossip parts. I hate it when they write it so tiny.

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lol. If yu need any help with a particular section, I can have a friend look it over for you.
He is japanese and can probably help. ^^

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Yay! I finished up my first chapter ever! I feel so accomplished.

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You did an awesome job. XD
You even tled the sfx
I <3 thee

Heh, thanks a bunch, CC
Hope it wasn't too tough.
After the tlc checks it, I'll get Aries to proof it for you.
Though, just reading it over briefly, I can see that your grammar is excellent. ^^

Posts : 48 Join date : 2010-12-17 Location : North America

Yah, you did do an awesome job! It was really easy to proof read.
Thanks for making my job easy. la la la la la

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Random present for CC:
Cupcake Paradise Sending-holiday-cookies-lg

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Irie wrote:: Random present for CC:

Aww, thank you! They look so delicious!!!

Posts : 48 Join date : 2010-12-17 Location : North America

I hope that you and those close to you are okay Decadent. Houses can be rebuilt but people can't be.

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i just rememberd deca is in japan now.....
i hope u'r safe and sound omg omg!!

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Vreiya wrote:: i just rememberd deca is in japan now.....
i hope u'r safe and sound

Watashi wa daijobu da yo!

I am back in the U.S. safe and sound. I arrived in late January, and even if the earthquake would have happened while I was in Japa, I would have been in the western area, which wasn't affected. Thank you for posting!

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good to hear that.... Happy

oh and where did u live when u'r in japan? living with foster parents or in a dorm?

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I lived with a host family when I was over there.

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I see did u sleep like in a futon or a bed hahaha im curious about sleeping in futon XD
btw can you help me deca? i want to write this "Happy 14th birthday" something like that to a friend but how's the writing in hiragana? Happy

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じゅうよんさいのたんじょうびおめでとうございます。　

へ　＾
の　の　
　も　
　へ

Posts : 44 Join date : 2010-12-17

Oh yay! is that right? thank you so much deca Ooooh!!

i see there's no space in jap writings ugh...

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Vreiya wrote:: Oh yay! is that right? thank you so much deca
i see there's no space in jap writings

十四歳の誕生日おめでとうございます。
Well, when you use kanji, it becomes easier to seperate the words.

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