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Translating Japanese for Beginners

translating Japanese for beginners

Are you studying Japanese and interested in translation? But you have no idea how to translate something from Japanese into English? This article on translating Japanese for beginners is for you!   A few years ago I completed an MA in

Jennifer O'Donnell April 24, 2017May 5, 2017 Localization 1 Comment Read more

Two Japanese Jabberwocky Poems

Japanese Jabberwocky Poems

This is one of my favourite essays from my MA in Translation Theory and Practice. The MA certainly focuses more on the theory side of translation which is evident from this essay. The point of the essay was to compare

Jennifer O'Donnell April 20, 2017September 19, 2021 Further Education, My Translations No Comments Read more

Translating Japanese Video Games – Ikinari Maou

Translating Japanese Video Games – Ikinari Maou

At the end of 2016 IGDA – Localization SIG announced on their Facebook Page a competition to translate a Japanese video game in 17 days. On the 9th December 2016 the first ever LocJAM Japan began! [WPGP gif_id=”448″ width=”600″] The winners were

Jennifer O'Donnell March 29, 2017July 5, 2019 Game Translation, Localization 3 Comments Read more

Shaping Game Lore through Localization

Shaping Game Lore through Localization

Many translators, when hired for a job, will translate the text given to them. Depending on the type of text and the company, the level of how much a text will change from the original will vary. I’ve discussed before

Jennifer O'Donnell March 9, 2017May 27, 2018 Game Translation, Localization No Comments Read more

How to Become a Japanese Translator

Japanese Translator

I run a website all about study Japanese and recently wrote How to Become a Japanese Translator for one of my readers. While writing it I came to the realization that the best way to become a Japanese translator… was

Jennifer O'Donnell March 1, 2017March 8, 2017 Japanese Language, Localization No Comments Read more

How Not to Localize a Video Game – Street Fighter V

How Not to Localize a Video Game – Street Fighter V

My husband and I watch EVO over the weekend, which is a large video game tournament in Las Vagus that has been running for the last 20 years. The largest tournament there is Street Fighter, and as my husband is a

Jennifer O'Donnell September 11, 2016March 30, 2017 Game Translation, Localization Read more

User Experience for Freelance Translators

User Experience for Freelance Translators

Have you ever had an experience with a company that has stuck with you forever? Have you made a simple inquiry only to get a non-professional, badly written, or rude response? Or no response at all? How did that experience leave

Jennifer O'Donnell August 26, 2016November 8, 2017 Freelance Business Advice, Localization No Comments Read more

Anthropology and Localising Video Games

Localising Video Games

When people ask me what my degree was their response to “Social Anthropology” is normally “Oohhh… What’s that?”. To which I normally reply “Social anthropology is the study of different cultures.” Yet social anthropology (or cultural anthropology in the US)

Jennifer O'Donnell May 23, 2016September 29, 2017 Game Translation, Localization 2 Comments Read more

All Games Should Be Localised Like Ni no Kuni

all games should be localised like ni no kuni

Translation & Localisation in Games One thing they never explained in my Theory and Practice of Translation MA, was that translation and localisation are two different things. In fact, the subject of localisation was never touched upon at all. Which

Jennifer O'Donnell May 10, 2016January 15, 2021 Game Translation, Localization 1 Comment Read more
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