Translation Blog

[gimmick-game.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to let you all know I have started a Vox for my lyric translations (and future translations as I get better) and scans.

it can be found here: http://ladygemma.vox.com

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Comments

[chibiseraph.livejournal.com]

waaah! awesome! and you have romaji too! yay! thanks so much for all your work. ^___^

[kawaii-beela.livejournal.com]

nice site!! thanks a lot!! keep up the great work!!

[hitori-asobi.livejournal.com]

As you get better... so how long have you been learning Japanese?

[noesunexito.livejournal.com]

I am going to be completely and brutally honest here:
I think you have quite a way to come before you should tackle translating lyrics. I've read over what you have on your site and there are some very serious basic grammar mistakes, so much so that they significantly change the meaning of the song.

But it's just the internet and these are just crappy boyband lyrics right? Even so you don't want to give the wrong impression to other fans, especially because other fans who don't know Japanese will basically assume that your translations are quite near accurate if you have enough confidence to make an entire blog for them.

If you want to translate something, start with articles. You can't go wrong with prose, whereas even professionals have difficulty with lyrics.