japanese speaker needed for a project

I'm working on a Usavich Complete Collection project, and as there are no subtitles at all for the extras, I need a japanese speaker who is willing to help me... I tried to do it by myself, using Wikipedia japanese alphabet(s) and painfully trying to find out which character is which, and it took more than an hour to translate a single name... (^^,)

What I need are essentially two things:

1) translation of simple, short phrases - mainly characters and vehicles description - found on video; there will be around two dozen descriptions, with few rows each (example), and for a japanese speaker it will take one or two hours (I guess) to do it; final text will be superimposed over the japanese original text.

2) translation of the "Making of"; in this case, the speech needs a transcription, and it will take more time than 1), even if it's only about 11 minutes long; final text will be used for subtitles.

Most needed is 1), as it will take some time to re-do the video, while 2) could be done in almost no time when the final text will be ready.

Many thanks in advance to whom may help!

_,,,^..^,,,_ said:1) translation of simple, short phrases - mainly characters and vehicles description - found on video; there will be around two dozen descriptions, with few rows each (<a href="http://s13.postimg.org/cq7n8swrr/VTS_01_2_VOB_snapshot_05_25_2013_12_17_15_36_51.jpg" target="_blank">example</a>), and for a japanese speaker it will take one or two hours (I guess) to do it; final text will be superimposed over the japanese original text.

According to Wikipedia (and also other sources)...

Kedamsky (?????? Kedamusuk?)

It's quite difficult to find the exact meaning of a phrase sometimes... here you are the Google translation of episode 26.5 title...

?M?? = De M Note

meaning: "Watch (out) for Extreme Masochist"... it took me some hours to find out it...

Well, a simple conversion from graphics to text will be enough; Google translation is my friend (sometimes) and I will try to find out a proper mean for the phrase, knowing something about the context.

If you would like to help, I will take all the needed screenshots.

Many thanks in advance!

_,,,^..^,,,_ said:According to Wikipedia (and also other sources)...

Kedamsky (<span>??????</span> Kedamusuk?

But seriously folks, a duel English Japanese speaker would be handy to know for me too, as I'm thinking of a 'The Last Samurai' based project which would have a Kanji title sequence that would almost certainly be hilariously wrong if I relied on Google translate.

Ryan McAvoy said:

But seriously folks, a duel English Japanese speaker would be handy to know for me too, as I'm thinking of a 'The Last Samurai' based project which would have a Kanji title sequence that would almost certainly be hilariously wrong if I relied on Google translate.

My PC is busy doing the Episode 2.5 conversion; after that, I'll check out for all the video parts with text to be translated, and will post them in a zipped file; I'll post the link here when it will be ready - in about two hours.

And thanks again for your help!!!

Sorry, yesterday I went to sleep and forgot to do the job...

Here you are the images: http://www.sendspace.com/file/uo1cue

they are 40, but as the main characters are repeated for the five series, many description will be similar between them.

What will be great is to have a .rtf or .doc file for each image, with japanese text "as is", plus a possible translation if you can do it.

_,,,^..^,,,_ said:

Sorry, yesterday I went to sleep and forgot to do the job...

I'm working on it right now; when text will be ready, I'll overlay it to the video - hope to finish before new year's eve.

So started doing this... First image made me think "um is this thing about dissecting corpses???" At least when I found out what the kanji meant... Anyways I think I'll be able to do at least 5 images today. I'll work on the rest tomorrow. I think time-wise I could technically do more but I got other stuff to attend to off line and on line.

Also I'm just putting it together into one rtf with it labeled with the images in the order giving in the zip. It's simply a waste of space of create individual rtfs for each image.

That said back to it.

This is what about: Usavich

Obviously, a single rtf file better than many ones!

Take your time, and meanwhile... (,^^) MERRY XMAS! (^^,)

So I'm almost done with those 5 images. Would've been done already but some off-line stuff took me away from it. Anyways just wanted to say ¡feliz navidad para tí tambien!

All right so I sort of slacked on my progress on this because of the holiday stuff. After I look at a few other threads I'll get back to this task. Apologies for the delay!

Don't worry! Meanwhile, I finished another project, so... Happy New Year!

Alright so tonight I'll be posting some of what I've been working on for this onto my tumblr. Then I'll post the link here and I'll get to work on the other remaining images. Hope the year's treating you well thus far!

image 1 - 3

Sumimasen, the delay I've had in this is admittedly too long. I can only apologize. First this happened to deter me from visiting here. Then what I didn't mention there is that I was actually sick at that time. I intended to write out a message in this thread at around the same time but I was too tired for that. I did manage to make some other posts but I wasn't entirely focused so I kind of didn't want to screw up posting in this thread. Another thing is that once my sickness recovered I had family wanting to spend time with me and essentially take up the time I had to spend posting here. Then some dire issues came up with one of my pets and I became preoccupied dealing with that.

Suffice it to say many things took me away from this. Well I'm back now and the best way to make up with that is to actually make some progress with this. I've copy and pasted the info for the first three images in the link above. If that way is good for you I can continue with the information for the other images that way. It's posted under a "read more" thing and a random generic tag so the general tumblr populace won't even read it. Here's what I mean. If that works out for you let me know and I'll post more of the image info throughout the week.

Again many apologies for my lack of progress here before. Now here's a random gif I found while browsing the internet!

You have not to excuse: this is an hobby, not a work, and what you, I, all of us, is doing is volunteer and not paid so... don't worry!

And I understand you, as I have some health problems too lately - luckily not so bad; and I understand more the problems with pets - look at my new avatar!

I can't read japanese text in tumblr; probably is because I had to reinstall OS and forgot to install japanese language support... well, please make a reference for each image, using the original image title - like image 1 was season1_60626.JPG - it will be easier to me. OK for tumblr.

If I well understood, when there are only Google and/or Bing translation, then it could be (almost) exact, right?

Thanks again for your effort!

Thank you so much in your understanding :-).

_,,,^..^,,,_ said:And I understand you, as I have some health problems too lately - luckily not so bad; and I understand more the problems with pets - look at my new avatar!

_,,,^..^,,,_ said:If I well understood, when there are only Google and/or Bing translation, then it could be (almost) exact, right?

_,,,^..^,,,_ said:Thanks again for your effort!

Twister111, can Sadako give some help? I think so!

Domo arigato!

Sure _,,,^..^,,,_ it's your project after all. You just need to upload the file again so Sadako can work with the images.

Sadako there's 40 images in the file. So how about I'll do the first 20 and you can do the last 20?

Konnichiwa! (with moshi-moshi, mirai, monogatari my japanese language knowledge stops here...)

Here you are the file, reuploaded: http://www.sendspace.com/file/5gb215 (1.3MB)

I think the best thing will be that Twister111 will continue his work up to image 20; Sadako will start from image 21; when ready, you should cross check your work, to see if something could be improved or corrected?

Is it good for you?

Please, just don't forget to menton image filename!

Thanks Sadako!

An .odt will be preferable, as I could edit it easily if needed.