[Question] Translation

[bashkim]

Did some speaks Japanese? I am reading bleach manga in English and in German, but the translation are not very same in some sentences the meanings changed.

 

[NLee]

There's bound to be some inconsistencies in translation between the two languages. I wouldn't nitpick though. They aren't so different that they change the manga.

 

[bashkim]

I only said that there are some sentence with different meanings. And I would like to compare them with the original manga, but unfortunately I am not able to read Japanese.

 

[TheHokage]

Yeah a lot of the Bleach manga is sort of...weird when it comes to translation, but it's not that big a deal since it gets the point across anyway.

I can speak and read relatively well in Japanese and the only thing I've noticed sometimes lost in translation is mostly when it comes plural sentences such as he/her get mixed up with you/them and sometimes names are mistranslated, but other than that it's only small things that don't really matter.

 

[bashkim]

It makes sense. Maybe I just should read the manga in English and not in German.

 

[TheHokage]

It makes sense. Maybe I just should read the manga in English and not in German.

Actually the translation is lost in the english version as well I was assuming you were talking about the english version in the first place, I'm not sure if the german is translated wrongly.

 

[bashkim]

No I read the manga usally in English, but the problem is that many English translations are wirtten in Amrican English, but I speak the Bristish English so I read in German to when there are some terms I did know the right meaning. Or I searched in the internet the meaning. But when I started to read bleach manga in German to there where many sentences and phrase with different meanings.

 

[TheHokage]

No I read the manga usally in English, but the problem is that many English translations are wirtten in Amrican English, but I speak the Bristish English so I read in German to when there are some terms I did know the right meaning. Or I searched in the internet the meaning. But when I started to read bleach manga in German to there where many sentences and phrase with different meanings.

I'd suggest looking for the raw scans of the manga then, since to be honest that seems like the only way you're going to get a 100% correct translation - However the downside to this idea is learning Japanese.

 

[bashkim]

It is a very good suggestion to learn Japanese, but I am learning Spanish currently. I leave in German and grow up here, but I am not a narrative speaker, because Albanian is my language. I will continue to read the manga in English and I will not read in German the manga so I will avoid any confusion.