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 Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 10:53 pm
Welcome to The Japanese Translation Game, folks! I'm your host, Bob Barker!*
In this game, you will give one phrase, however practical or ridiculously stupid you would like, for the person after you to translate. It can be anything from asking where the toilet is to explaining how to assemble a rocket ship.
Now, this may sound very difficult to regulate. What if, you say, a beginner gets stuck with translating a line from some writer of florid sensational novels? On the other end of the spectrum, what if an advanced student is given a line from Everybody Poops? Well, don't fear, because there's always a solution.
In your post, you will translate the phrase given to you, and then post three phrases of different levels for the next person to translate.
Like this: Quote: ある朝、僕は店のおじさんとけんかして、海に逃げ込んだのさ。 One morning I fought with the old man at the shop and ran away to the sea. Beginner: Captain Underpants is my favorite book. Intermediate: My older sister's boyfriend is a 40 year old otaku who lives in his grandmother's basement. Advanced: A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
And the next poster would pick the phrase most suited to their skill level, translate it into Japanese, and add three more phrases for the person following them to choose from.
Simple, right?
So let's get to it! I'll start off with the three I used above.
Beginner: Captain Underpants is my favorite book.
Intermediate: My older sister's boyfriend is a 40 year old otaku who lives in his grandmother's basement.
Advanced: A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
Go!
*Not actually Bob Barker
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Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 3:00 pm
Intermediate: My older sister's boyfriend is a 40 year old otaku who lives in his grandmother's basement.
watashino oneesan no boifurendo wa yonjuusai no otakukute obaasan no chikashitsuni sundeimasu.
i think that's how it is...
Beginner: I hate small classrooms
Intermediate: I am hiding below the couch and eating my uncle's chips from China
Pro: The extensive amount of debt was unbearable to sustain.
..i have no clue if im doin' dis rite >.>
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Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 11:37 pm
(Should be Watashi no oneesan no boifurendo wa yon juu sai no otaku de obaasan no chikashitsu ni sunde imasu.)
Intermediate:
私はソファーの下に隠れて、私のおじさんの中国のポテトチップスを食べてところだ。
Watashi wa soofa no shita ni kakurete, watashi no ojisan no chuugoku no potetochippu o tabete tokoro da.
(I think that was close...lol.)
Beginner: I ate your cat.
Intermediate: Next week I'm going to slowly eat your cat and watch it bleed.
(Yes, evil, I know. =D )
Advanced: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
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Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 1:30 am
Advance: マーモットは材木がポイと投げられれば、どれだけの材木をポイと投げるだろう？
^ I never really understood that in English anyway so I don't know if I translated that right...I translated chuck as 'throw away', but does it mean 'carve' like 彫る？ I don't know...help a brother out
Beginner: I buy a lot of books.
Intermediate: I have about 30 books on my bookshelf.
Advanced: I need to find out how much it costs to send 30kg of books back to America.
^ Above are true statements xp
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Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 11:12 pm
I'm pretty sure "chuck" means chop...like chopping wood. I don't know if the sentence is right though, I'm not that good. xD
Intermediate: 私は本だなに三十さつ位本があります。
(I dunno if that's right or not either. xD )
Beginner: Santa is my friend.
Intermediate: I just finished eating my brother's pizza.
Advanced:
This is the song that never ends, it just goes on and on, my friends! Some people started singing it, not knowing what it was, but now they just keep singing it forever just because...
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 6:03 pm
(It should be 私の本棚には, right? xD)
Intermediate: ついさっき兄のピザを食べ終わりました。
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Beginner: My favorite food is cheese.
Intermediate: The dog needs food as soon as possible.
Advanced: There are two chickens on the lawn. ;D (This is classic)
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 8:58 pm
Cirenes (It should be 私 の本棚に は, right? xD) Intermediate: ついさっき兄のピザを食べ終わりました。 -- Beginner: My favorite food is cheese. Intermediate: The dog needs food as soon as possible. Advanced: There are two chickens on the lawn. ;D (This is classic) (Nope, that means "There are about 30 books on my bookshelf" rather than "I have about 30 books on my bookshelf" I think..) Advanced: 芝生に２羽の鶏がいます。 Beginner: I'm bored. Intermediate: I like playing this game. Advanced: I got bored after playing this game for a while, so I decided to go do something else.
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 2:59 pm
Ah, sorry, the general meaning was the same. ^^; If you translate literally, some things sound very strange; as with all languages, there are ways to translate some things but not others. I can tell because I'm a native speaker.
Intermediate: このゲームを遊ぶのが好きです。
Beginner: I'm hungry.
Intermediate: My term paper was due two days ago.
Advanced: I'm excited to go back to Japan, but I don't want to pay for the plane ticket.
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Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 7:40 pm
Cirenes Ah, sorry, the general meaning was the same. ^^; If you translate literally, some things sound very strange; as with all languages, there are ways to translate some things but not others. I can tell because I'm a native speaker. Intermediate: このゲームを遊ぶのが好きです。 Beginner: I'm hungry. Intermediate: My term paper was due two days ago. Advanced: I'm excited to go back to Japan, but I don't want to pay for the plane ticket. Beginner Translation: はらがへった？ わからないよ～～～！ Beginner: I like cats. Intermediate: Let the blue sky's tears fall. Advanced: I was walking under the cherry blossoms when I heard my friend’s grandmother fall down twenty flights of stairs.
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 1:22 pm
Beginner: I like cats.
Translation: Watashi wa neko ga suki desu.
[I should start studying more, now that school is almost out i will have more time for it] >3
Beginner: The book is over there.
Intermediate: It will rain later tonight.
Advanced: If I didn't have to work I would go out with friends.
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Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 1:20 pm
Beginner: The book is over there.
Hon ga asoko desu.
*not sure*
I don't know much xP
Beginnner: I like the color blue.
Intermediate: Whales are the largest mammals.
Advanced: It is easier to see stars at night in the country than the city.
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Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 8:59 pm
`Psychotic Beginner: The book is over there. Hon ga asoko desu. *not sure* I don't know much xP Beginnner: I like the color blue. Intermediate: Whales are the largest mammals. Advanced: It is easier to see stars at night in the country than the city. I like the color blue - 青色が好きです。 Aoiro ga suki desu. Whales are the largest mammals. - クジラは哺乳動物の中で一番大きい。Kujira wa honyuu doubutsu no naka de ichiban ookii. (lol である体) It is easier to see stars at night in the country than the city. - 都会の中より、田舎の方では夜の星が見やすい。Tokai no naka yori, inaka no hou de wa yoru no hoshi ga miyasui. And next~ Beginner: He is not Japanese. Intermediate: If you study, your grades will get better. Advanced: From his point of view, we, not them, are the enemies.* *super ultra advanced: write the same thing in Kansai-ben XD
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Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 7:37 pm
Show off lol =P
Beginner: He is not Japanese.
Ano ga nihon-jin ja arimasen
(Please correct me any time I'm wrong, kay? So I can learn.)
Beginner: Fish are colorful.
Intermediate: These clothes are not my style.
Advanced: I hate hospitals because they remind me of death and disease.
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Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:59 pm
`Psychotic Show off lol =P Beginner: He is not Japanese. Ano ga nihon-jin ja arimasen (Please correct me any time I'm wrong, kay? So I can learn.) Beginner: Fish are colorful. Intermediate: These clothes are not my style. Advanced: I hate hospitals because they remind me of death and disease. You're missing a word smile "Ano hito wa nihonjin ja arimasen." Also, uh, I'm not sure trying to express "colorful" in Japanese is a job for a beginner 8D; They don't have a good equivalent word for it that I know of.
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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 2:29 pm
ki-ri-to `Psychotic Show off lol =P Beginner: He is not Japanese. Ano ga nihon-jin ja arimasen (Please correct me any time I'm wrong, kay? So I can learn.) Beginner: Fish are colorful. Intermediate: These clothes are not my style. Advanced: I hate hospitals because they remind me of death and disease. You're missing a word smile "Ano hito wa nihonjin ja arimasen." Also, uh, I'm not sure trying to express "colorful" in Japanese is a job for a beginner 8D; They don't have a good equivalent word for it that I know of. Thank you. whee And sorry, I'm just pulling new sentences out of nowhere because I have to put something down. x3 Um..how about, fish swim in water? @.@;
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