Need help for a major project

[GoldCoinLover]

間違いなく音がします。 does anyone know the meaning of this?


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間違いなく音がします。 does anyone know the meaning of this?

I need help. I'm good at knowing natural english, (obviously) as I'm native english. (American)

I'm working on a project for a major magic company in Japan. They translate the japanese into english, and I make it natural and am providing lip dubbing and voice overs for the magic. It's going to be released worldwide. I have until tomorrow to do this. I'm a bit stressed, because the english is not natural. And although I can understand the meaning of some of it, I cannot understand (yet) every subtlety said. Worse, I cannot figure out from context whether they mean "You", "I", or "We", because there is no pronoun like such in the sentence. I can only go by context, as usual in japanese it seems. The translator has already corrected the lines twice. They are better, but it's still not natural. I don't know what to do. I cannot make english natural, because the english is flawed to start with. And further, I cannot understand exactly all the japanese from the translation, so the meaning is slightly twisted. It gets the general meaning across, but for an american Audience, I'm concerned. I do not have any more time left.

Most of the japanese has general meaning from Japanese. I'm a bit of a perfectionist, and it's not my job to translate, but I Can't help but feel frusterated because I cannot understand more of the complex uses of clauses and sentences yet, and I want to make it as accurate as possible. It's hard to make English Natural when it's not natural to begin with. I"m just concerned. Since I'm providing my voice for the voice overs, as well as lip syncing, I want to make it good. I don't want my job, which is important, to hurt the sales of their product.

This computer can't display japanese, so I had to upload from my phone. I put the english, and underlined the part which doesnt' make sense. Please help , I'm frusterated. I can't figure it out.

Just to clarify. The japanese before said something like: "If I tap the invisible coin with the visible coin.

Did you hear something?

Try to listen carefully.

Are you ready?

Listen.

We can hear something."

The problem lies in there's no "We' in the audience. It's just the performer performing. What could this meaning be? Could it mean "I hear something." "Can you hear something?" or "I hear something, can you?" I'm not sure.

I know phrases like yokunakatta, where "na" is used as a conjucture for katta which is past tense. So Yokunakatta means "Wasn't good."

Thank you.

 

[Toritoribe]

I would say "You'll definitely hear something."

I know phrases like yokunakatta, where "na" is used as a conjucture for katta which is past tense.

"Na" is the stem of the negative "nai", and NOT a conjuntion.

You posted this thread to the wrong section, right?;-)

 

[GoldCoinLover]

Thank you. Thats what i meant. I thought the na stem was used to join the adjective and the past tense katta. Yokunai, yokunakatta. Sorry for the wrong thread. I never can get my japanese right. Thank you.

 

[Toritoribe]

You're COMPLETELY misunderstanding it. "Na" is NOT for connecting. It's for NEGATIVE. In fact, you don't need "na" for the past positive "yokatta".

 

[Mike Cash]

Kevin, the only time eagerness makes up for lack of ability is sex. We all admire your desire and your drive to learn Japanese, but surely you can see that somebody who after years of study is just now getting a handle on stuff that is quite frankly "Lesson 1" material (wa/ga and sore/sono) really has no business trying to translate stuff when somebody else is counting on it. There's a huge difference between trying to read/understand stuff for your own education and enjoyment and doing it when somebody else's project is riding on it. The task of just cleaning up some English and making it sound more natural seems easy enough, but as you are learning sometimes it requires you to know what the person was saying in Japanese before you can even clean up the English. You're nowhere near being able to do that.

問題なく音がします is rather elementary Japanese and if you have to ask if anybody knows what it means, it means you shouldn't have taken on this project. I sometimes get the impression you rather overestimate your ability to read/understand Japanese just because you can pick out the vocabulary. Please don't take on projects like this again. Work on your own studies. Make your own projects. To jump into this without really knowing what you were letting yourself in for is somewhat understandable and forgivable, but it would be irresponsible of you to do it again. This high-schoolish "I have a big project due tomorrow and I want people online to do it for me" crap is beneath you, Kevin. You're better than that.

 

[GoldCoinLover]

Thanks mike. I'm beginning to realize that myself. It's alot more complex and subtle than I thought. My job wasn't to translate mike. It was only to make the japanese they translated more natural. But I noticed the translated english didn't make sense and always match up to the magicians performance. For example "we can hear something" im not sure who "we" is. . He recently translated again, most of makes sense now. But again when the japanese is not wrong in english, not all of it as natural as I needed.

 

[Mike Cash]

Also, we were extremely limited in our ability to help you since we were unable to see the original Japanese. My computer uses the Japanese version of Windows so I've never had the problem of having to set it up to display or input Japanese text, but I believe it is supposed to be a rather simple matter to set up your English Windows to handle Japanese text. I'm sure there must be some posts here on how to do it. If you can't find one then I am sure some of the nice people here who know how would be glad to help you with it.

 

[GoldCoinLover]

Mike, my phone displays it. I can't have real internet on a computer from a serious 12 year gaming addiction. I go to the library. It works there

 

[GoldCoinLover]

And I just feel really bad that my japanese is so terrible. I didn't realize it was that crappy. I'm just depressed about it. I guess I won't self study until I can take a class.