Yuri's Translation Shop

I forgot about this thread. You haven't been around in forever Yuri

Is this thread on? Is Yuri kill? It's a mystery.

Here's a request, just the image.



also I second this request. Idorus. Nyaa a best.

Sorry for the late reply! Hope everyone is good. The forums are worse than ever hence my recent lack of posting, as well as coming to Japan.

The thread is still on, but it's going to take me time to get back to requests for quite a while since I'm here in Japan for the third year of my uni course until August. I'm also working 3 paid translation jobs, two of which are amazing opportunities I was not expecting to actually receive, as well as 1 freelance translation job and 1 voluntary translation job. Never been so frikin busy...

But I will get back to you eventually when I can!

Thanks for posting here again. Madokami is dead so this is a repost of the images I linked.



Great to hear you landed some jobs. Bonne chance, がんばって！

My roommate would like a translation of this in your free time.

thanks Yuri.

Bringing this thread back if anyone's interested. The images of stuff I have yet to translate have died so you'll need to repost stuff.

Post in your requests!

Ill to get around to posting some more of that eroge you started translating way back if you want to keep going with it.

Go for it!

Shoot. It's a fighting game character so it might have some weird terminology.

Yeah, had to do a bit of research. This is less of a translation and more of an explanation. Sorry if you know this stuff already but I'll write it anyway.
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Shirt: EX吹上出るから！！

So EX吹上 is talking about the EX Special version of her attack 吹上 which is "Fukiage." Fukiage is like an anti-air combat move that she does where she throws her fist in the air. That might explain her pose in the picture.

出るから is kind of vague so I'm just gonna guess the whole sentence means something like "I can do [perform] an EX Fukiage!!!"

Panel: 正中線出ないから

Same thing as before, 正中線 is "Seichusen" and is another fighting move. Guessing it's a shortened name for her move "Seichusen Godanzuki." Seichusen means something like "midline" or literally "median line" but the move name as a whole is something like this.

Again, 出ないから is vague, so I'll just say it's "I can't perform my Seichusen."
Literally it's "The EX Fukiage won't come out."

Sorry if this was a shitty response but hope it helped somewhat!

So it's "I can't perform Seichusen" on the side and "I can do fukiage" on the shirt, right?

I understood right away what moves you were referring to. Thanks tho, I appreciate it. Now to find a physical copy of that shirt.

Yup, that's right.

Hope you find the shirt!

This isn't exactly related but I've started studying Japanese a month ago!

Everything is through self study so far and I'm not planning on taking any courses but I should look for language cafés or something similar later. Anyway I digress, I decided to learn Japanese through vocab, I'm using a book called Basic Kanji Book. I'm almost done with the first volume which consists of 250 kanji. After I'm done I got recommended to not use Genki but a book called Japanese in Mangaland. The current plan is first do the first kanji book to get some vocabulary so that grammar gets easier.

It feels good now in the beginning when you feel a sense of accomplishment for just being able to recognize kanji in the wild. If you know any good tools or communities, I'd gladly know about them. Oh and if you know any visual novels that's in easy Japanese, I'd gladly take that as well. It's been really hard to find other media that has both voiced Japanese and Japanese text.

Hey, sorry it's taken me 9 months to get back to you. I completely forgot to reply. How are your studies going? Did you finish the kanji book and are onto new kanji now?

Genki is a good series but it's expensive and imo not worth it. I'd highly recommend looking into Minna no Nihongo instead to pick up grammar and vocab. You should then move onto Kanzen Master (these are JLPT prep books but are incredibly detailed and give lots of examples) when you get to an intermediate level. New Approach Japanese Pre-Advanced Course is great to move onto after that, it comes with CDs as well. We used all of these books during my Japanese BA at university and they really are amazing.

These are all mainly for grammar and vocab. Visual novel wise, I haven't actually read any for a very long time so I'm not sure of any recommendations on that front.

The best materials though (when you feel comfortable enough) for reading and listening are those written for Japanese people. If you're interested in world news then NHK is indispensable. That page is updated every day with news from every continent. What's great about it is that each audio news clip also has the transcript (click the + next to each piece) so you can listen/read/shadow as much as you want. And you can download the audio too.

You should also try tackling articles on stuff you're interested in. I really like reading Animate Times for weeb shit and Natalie for music-related stuff. Print out articles, highlight words you don't know and pick apart the sentences. Flashcards, Anki, whatever works for you.

This was a while ago lol. I actually started a Japanese course in university and we're working with Genki. While I'm not a fan of Genki or the method they are using for learning language, I see it more as a way of putting me into a Japanese environment and forcing me to keep up with my studies.

So I finished the kanji book I was going through and I haven't progressed further than that yet. I think I'm gonna wait until summer before I start with BKB 2. In terms of grammar, I've been working through Genki and Tae Kim's Guide during my course. And I've also been playing nukige, reading manga and been watching Japanese movies, anime etc. Right now that's what I've been enjoying doing the most, although anime-centric stuff can be a little same-y same-y in regards to the language the use.

I haven't actually considered reading other articles than domestic and international news so I'll remember that. That can definitely be a place for a more nuanced and flavorful use of Japanese. And I've read Easy NHK a few times before but never the regular site.