You should take a break and read it again if you have the time (3rd time’s the charm), just to make extra sure you’ve understood the original. Then read it again to make sure you’ve understood it all. When you’ve finished reading it look up some of the key words you were unsure of and write them down. Make a note of or make Japanese words you don’t know or are unsure of (but don’t look them up – try and read the whole thing without stopping). Doesn’t matter if it’s an short article or a novel, you should read the whole thing. The following is a breakdown with advice for beginners who are practicing their translations, not for when you’re working for a company to a deadline.įirst you need to read the original in full. The translation process can be broken down into the following 10 steps (although it’s slightly different in a professional situation, depending on the person, client and project): We’re going to go into a little more detail here. My article Translating from Japanese to English for Beginners loosely described the translation process for people who want to teach themselves Japanese. It’s for beginners to teach themselves translation and practice with until they can work for clients. This article is for those interested in translating Japanese, although it can also be applied to translating other languages too. You can see a complete list of them on my Japanese language website: Japanese Talk Online – Articles on Translation This article will build on things mentioned in previous translation articles. So I decided to add to the previous article on translating Japanese for beginners. Now I’m taking an evening class in Translation and Interpretation at a local University and it’s 100% better than the MA program. However, my MA was surprisingly not that good for teaching you translation and I had to teach myself a lot over the years. At the time I wrote about how to translate Japanese to English 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!Ī few years ago I completed an MA in Theory and Practice of Translation at SOAS, London.
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