Mahouka - Visitor Arc : Volumes 9, 10 & 11
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Re: Mahouka - Visitor Arc : Volumes 9, 10 & 11
I haven't translated Mahouka for a long time, but doing some mental translations of v10 just made me recall......... this series tests my English more than my Japanese. Speed translations are out of the question for me.
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Re: Mahouka - Visitor Arc : Volumes 9, 10 & 11
Why drop the idea!?! I think its a pretty good onelarethian wrote: Oh, I was thinking of doing a bit of speed translations of volume 10, guess I should drop the idea.
Vol 10 is pretty short with just 300 pages or so. Visitor arc ends in volume 11 which will be out in August. After that should be year 2 arc start. Incidentally, v10 must have been the cheapest Mahouka volume I bought, or is Japan's currency weakening?
Also, I think I just read on the papers today that the Yen is currently raising and because of that it is hurting their exports? Gosh, reality, so confusing
Anyways, about Chinese translations, I do hope you are right and that since volume 10 is out they will start to more actively translate volume 9. The source that Dreyakis pointed me to, which is the one he probably uses as well, has only 1 translator left who has stopped updating for more than a week already. Also, he confesses that he isn't that awesome at translating, and has indeed received some pretty disparaging remarks to his translation speed.
This may or may not have killed his motivation to translate, but we shall see I guess?
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Re: Mahouka - Visitor Arc : Volumes 9, 10 & 11
LOL, raising people's hopes and then dashing them on the rocks. So evil.larethian wrote:I haven't translated Mahouka for a long time, but doing some mental translations of v10 just made me recall......... this series tests my English more than my Japanese. Speed translations are out of the question for me.
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Re: Mahouka - Visitor Arc : Volumes 9, 10 & 11
larethian wrote:I haven't translated Mahouka for a long time, but doing some mental translations of v10 just made me recall......... this series tests my English more than my Japanese. Speed translations are out of the question for me.
Well, I guess it's kinda hard to translate it to English (sometimes I have problems understanding it in English =( tried to translate some of paragraphs to Russian, almost impossible if you don't have excessive dictionary of terms ) I can only suggest you to start from the end of volume and translate it at your own pace
Also it doesn't matter how speedy translations will be, it's not like you obligate to translate it as fast as you can
BTW, I can think of one way to get translations up to speed, like for example each translator (You, Sashiko, Seitsuki) translates one chapter at slow/medium slow pace, chapters are posted once a week or so, so everyone have around 2-3 weeks to translate, but it's kinda hard to do because of other occupations of translators and it will be impossible for Dreyakis because he needs Chinese translations
True Troll trollingRava wrote:LOL, raising people's hopes and then dashing them on the rocks. So evil.
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Re: Mahouka - Visitor Arc : Volumes 9, 10 & 11
I've come to the conclusion that there are no good ways to learn Japanese, only less bad ways. And unfortunately you pretty much have to work out which is the least bad way for yourself. On my part formal learning didn't work so well (classes at university as part of my IT degree), but also starting out and teaching myself didn't either. A bit of both, some time and persistence, and starting to slowly and methodically try to translate a LN (along with miscellaneous editing on B-T) is helping me learn much better on top of the base knowledge.TheLaG wrote:P/S - can someone suggest good way to learn Japanese?
But it still sucks. Especially when you've spent 15 minutes trying to work out what the heck a sentence is supposed to mean, only to realise that you mistranslated one character/word, and that particular character happens to be actually a person's name, and 5 seconds later the entire sentence clicks into place and makes perfect sense. >.< (No, this didn't just happen to me; why do you ask? )
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Re: Mahouka - Visitor Arc : Volumes 9, 10 & 11
Use zkanji. And watch lots of anime in japanese with english subtitles (to understand the sentence flow/grammar).
Other than that there's http://www.freejapaneselessons.com/
Other than that there's http://www.freejapaneselessons.com/
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Re: Mahouka - Visitor Arc : Volumes 9, 10 & 11
Uh, TheLaG
There's really no way to get your speedy translations I've registered for volume 10 chapter 10 which by my estimate will take me at least 3 months to complete after I finish "Dubious Lolicon" (Aproximately 50% done at the moment).
Frankly, I'm a little glad Dreyakis is a little stalled since I don't want to be still working on chapter 10 when chapter 11 is completed. The chapter is divided into 17 sections so I'll be doing the sections which are most important to understanding chapter 11 and 12 first so if necessary I should be able to do a partial without less important scenes (i.e. the last six pages of Miyuki Fan Service)
Sashiko
There's really no way to get your speedy translations I've registered for volume 10 chapter 10 which by my estimate will take me at least 3 months to complete after I finish "Dubious Lolicon" (Aproximately 50% done at the moment).
Frankly, I'm a little glad Dreyakis is a little stalled since I don't want to be still working on chapter 10 when chapter 11 is completed. The chapter is divided into 17 sections so I'll be doing the sections which are most important to understanding chapter 11 and 12 first so if necessary I should be able to do a partial without less important scenes (i.e. the last six pages of Miyuki Fan Service)
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Re: Mahouka - Visitor Arc : Volumes 9, 10 & 11
royaloyalz I can't seem to find those illustrations, halp plox ?
found them nvm -)
found them nvm -)
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Re: Mahouka - Visitor Arc : Volumes 9, 10 & 11
"Less important" scenes? (................)
Anyway my exams finish 25th so should be able to get stuff done at speed from there.
Anyway my exams finish 25th so should be able to get stuff done at speed from there.
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Re: Mahouka - Visitor Arc : Volumes 9, 10 & 11
Chapter 10 is marked with ◊ ◊ ◊ in sixteen places dividing the chapter into 17 parts.
Some of the parts are a joy to read but are not as essential to understanding the events that occur in chapters 11 and 12 as others.
Sashiko
Some of the parts are a joy to read but are not as essential to understanding the events that occur in chapters 11 and 12 as others.
Spoiler! :
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Re: Mahouka - Visitor Arc : Volumes 9, 10 & 11
I know what you mean, I speak 3 languages fluently and even though I can understand each perfectly, I have trouble translating them to someone else.larethian wrote:I haven't translated Mahouka for a long time, but doing some mental translations of v10 just made me recall......... this series tests my English more than my Japanese. Speed translations are out of the question for me.
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Re: Mahouka - Visitor Arc : Volumes 9, 10 & 11
This is definitely one of the harder series to translate that's for sure. So many technical/uncommon terms are used that makes it a slow process.
A series with a bunch of strait dialogue (like papakiki or something) is like 10x easier to read/translate than this series.
A series with a bunch of strait dialogue (like papakiki or something) is like 10x easier to read/translate than this series.
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Re: Mahouka - Visitor Arc : Volumes 9, 10 & 11
Personally, I don't mind waiting for the chapters to come out. I have other things to read while I wait.
I have to say that I like this arc more than the previous ones. Don't get me wrong. The others are good, but I just like this one better.
Lina's personality + Tatsuya's personality = funny interactions. I love how they're basically accusing one another of being secretive while not being secretive at the same time. It's just so funny to read. I'm just wondering what will happen in the 11th volume. It would be crazy if Lina kissed Tatsuya in front of everybody. It probably won't happen but just imagine if it did. Oh god, the look on Miyuki's face. I can see it now. XD
I have to say that I like this arc more than the previous ones. Don't get me wrong. The others are good, but I just like this one better.
Lina's personality + Tatsuya's personality = funny interactions. I love how they're basically accusing one another of being secretive while not being secretive at the same time. It's just so funny to read. I'm just wondering what will happen in the 11th volume. It would be crazy if Lina kissed Tatsuya in front of everybody. It probably won't happen but just imagine if it did. Oh god, the look on Miyuki's face. I can see it now. XD
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Re: Mahouka - Visitor Arc : Volumes 9, 10 & 11
[quote="seitsuki"]"Less important" scenes? (................)
Anyway my exams finish 25th so should be able to get stuff done at speed from there.[/quote]
Seitsuki - sama <3
Anyway my exams finish 25th so should be able to get stuff done at speed from there.[/quote]
Seitsuki - sama <3
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Re: Mahouka - Visitor Arc : Volumes 9, 10 & 11
Is the maid from the vol. 10 illustrations a robot? Cause I noticed she doesn't have any ears.
...and it is Japan after all.
...and it is Japan after all.