Teach Me Japanese!
Anyway, I started at the 100-ish issue and read everything up until Chapter 494. Just imagine all those hours of un-productivity. Almost every issue has several grammatical errors. Some to the extent of not making any sense at all.
Example:
Another:
And another:
Yet another:
Heck, my seven year old niece can come up with way better sentences. It makes me think if these (translators/cleaners) people are translating the shit correctly (Apologies, I cannot find the chapter where you can find the most unintelligible grammatical error I’ve seen in these chapters).
Forgive me, I’m just rambling. I have no right to complain because I’m just reading free shit online, but heck, Dattebayo seldom had grammatical errors in their subs for Naruto. It’s funny how the Dattebayo staff picked up Haters because of their strict policy and guidelines in IRC. It was like #UP in undernet a few years back. I think that it’s just fair that the staff of Binktopia, FrankyHouse, Basement, kokotas, KaNx, Obxist, Mangashare, etc., refine their translations in order to provide better quality manga to the public. I mean, if you’re going to do something, please do it right.
So out of disgust for grammatical errors and unintelligible babble, I need to learn Japanese ASAP. I know someone who can probably teach me, but last I heard, she’s in Cebu. So yeah. If you know anyone, please leave a comment. I’m tired of just making do with this free shit. If I can just read and write in Japanese, I’d probably start my own Scanlations group. Scanlations with spanking right grammar and zero typographical errors.
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By Maki on Apr 1, 2008 | Reply
There are workshops this summer in our school. I also suggest buying the volumess of Minna No Nihonggo (what they use in Japan to learn Nihonggo). I think there is a seller on Ebay.ph the last time I was browsing.
Hope this helps! ^_^
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By keysinunez.com on Apr 2, 2008 | Reply
oy Maki! Thanks for the suggestions. I was looking for something more cost-efficient. hehe. /me = cheap-creep.
By Rozeh on Apr 2, 2008 | Reply
oi keys! magaaral ako ng japanese sa june! lol sa nihonggo learning center ba yun. lol adik ako eh. hehe. mahal nga lang 8k/sem ata tas 2 sems pa yun. haha ADIK NGA AKO.
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By keysinunez.com on Apr 2, 2008 | Reply
PAKSHET. BAKET MAHAL? maghahanap na alng ako ng hapon. =P nasan si Ai?
By Khursten on Apr 2, 2008 | Reply
Easiest way out (without the pain of learning 1000 kanji to understand manga) is to buy the translatated ones in Powerbooks for 200 or so bucks. They'll be grammatically correct. That's for sure.
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By Shabby on Apr 8, 2008 | Reply
@_@ It sucks reading manga scans with bad English. Not like I'm good at English, but at least I know what's grammatically wrong. They probably do not have quality-checkers and just release the scans as soon as edits are done. :/ I'm in several scanlation groups and we try hard to make every sentence "grammatically" right.
I started learning some Japanese by myself. It's not too hard when it's just the basics. ^_^ But will probably enroll in a language school if money permits. *lol*
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By keysinunez.com on Apr 8, 2008 | Reply
alas, shabby's in a scanlation group. i wonder if shabby's willing to teach me japanese~
By Shabby on Apr 8, 2008 | Reply
I'm just an editor. ^_^;;;
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By Laarni on Apr 8, 2008 | Reply
Good luck to you! I think japanese is hard but you can do it if you really like to.
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