How I Translate Japanese Otome Games

Описание: A viewer asked me to show the process of translating Japanese. So I took some screenshots of an actual otome game I translated last year, and I break down step by step how I translated it. Note that this is NOT a video about using a program to switch the text in a game from Japanese to English. It is about how I, a professional translator of games, translate the game text for the games' English language commercial release.

*Note: Around 13:50 I mistakenly refer to the verb “hokorobaseru” as “passive.” It’s actually causative. Again, I learned my intermediate-advanced Japanese through exposure and not textbooks, so I didn’t learn until well after the fact what these grammar rules are called and I still mix up what they’re called in English from time to time.

Also around 15:00 I call something an “object” when it’s actually the subject.

**Original upload: May, 2018

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