Here I'll post stuff I'm working on and release subtitles as well for the videos. I'm working on trailers at the moment and short videos for transcription reasons.

I'm currently working on FF13-2 trailers and will go onto other projects very soon. (Want to do a few projects every week so I can make transcribing skills better)

First Project is this FF13-2 Trailer:

ＦＦ１３－２ Jp subs
時は流れる
私が存在しない世界で
時代は
移り変わって行く　
セラ
真実の記憶は
お前の中にしかない

手を出すな！
この子は
俺の獲物なんだ！
貴方, 夢に出てきた
話は後
皆そろったな
あの辺に隕石が落ちたらし
貴方は
ノエル、ノエル　クライス
友達のお墓よ
パージから逃げる途中
ここで死んだの
な…何あれ？
セラ

ノエルの願いは、何？
皆が生きてる未来

無事か？
うん！


オーディン！


皆早く！
こっちだ　早く！

セラ！逃げろ！
お姉ちゃん　助けて
しっかりしなさい！
ライトニングはもう　死んだんだ！

Cool thanks! I was actually wondering about that exact trailer. Could you also post an English translation?

jishera Wrote:Cool thanks! I was actually wondering about that exact trailer. Could you also post an English translation?

I'll get working on that soon. I'm trying to do 1-2 transcription/translation projects a day(nothing long, 1-2mins or short paragraphs for translations)

Never mind。

It seems you write みんな as 皆, but I think kana is more common when it's not みな. If you prefer kanji, 皆んな is an alternative way to distinguish between みな and みんな in writing.

Here are some typos I noticed:

貴方は夢に出てきた should read 貴方、夢に出てきた…… (i.e., は is not there.)

あの隕石が落ちたらし should be あの辺に隕石が落ちたらしい (You dropped へんに before 隕石 and final い.)

The line at 0:35 is probably an ellipsis (i.e., 貴方は……), though it could be a question.

ノエル願いは　何？ should read ノエルの願いは、何？ (You missed の.)

オーディン is a more common spelling.

The line by the blue haired character at 1:47 is quite hard to hear, but I think it's something along the line of こっち　早く！ I think you got the other guy's line right.

magamo Wrote:It seems you write みんな as 皆, but I think kana is more common when it's not みな. If you prefer kanji, 皆んな is an alternative way to distinguish between みな and みんな in writing.

Here are some typos I noticed:

貴方は夢に出てきた should read 貴方、夢に出てきた…… (i.e., は is not there.)

あの隕石が落ちたらし should be あの辺に隕石が落ちたらしい (You dropped へんに before 隕石 and final い.)

The line at 0:35 is probably an ellipsis (i.e., 貴方は……), though it could be a question.

ノエル願いは　何？ should read ノエルの願いは、何？ (You missed の.)

オーディン is a more common spelling.

The line by the blue haired character at 1:47 is quite hard to hear, but I think it's something along the line of こっち　早く！ I think you got the other guy's line right.

thanks for pointing out my mistakes. I have to be more careful because I know when it comes to transcribing, I miss a few things here and there. I'll edit it out and add the correct ones in

jishera Wrote:Cool thanks! I was actually wondering about that exact trailer. Could you also post an English translation?

all the ffxiii-2 trailers are available in english as far as I know. it might be difficult to find interesting videogame stuff that is jp-exclusive. i'd probably pick some good movies with subtitles available ~not in japanese~ and go from there, if i was you.

you wouldnt have to do the timing and people could subs2SRS that stuff. it will take longer to finish projects but you won't run out of interesting content. there's a bunch of awesome movies out there without japanese subs. pretty sure that dorama haters would love you

keikei Wrote:

jishera Wrote:Cool thanks! I was actually wondering about that exact trailer. Could you also post an English translation?

all the ffxiii-2 trailers are available in english as far as I know. it might be difficult to find interesting videogame stuff that is jp-exclusive. i'd probably pick some good movies with subtitles available ~not in japanese~ and go from there, if i was you.

you wouldnt have to do the timing and people could subs2SRS that stuff. it will take longer to finish projects but you won't run out of interesting content. there's a bunch of awesome movies out there without japanese subs. pretty sure that dorama haters would love you

lol yea. At the moment I'm doing FF13-2 trailers in jp because I'm going to be getting this game when it comes out (jp version). I'm also working on some anime trailers (bleach,naruto,etc). I'm going to transcribe some news stuff (one that doesn't have subtitles, because this one is an older one).

Here's another one I transcribed but I'm having trouble with one sentence

劇場版ブリーチ地獄篇 2nd TV PROMO

卍解！
地獄の門は開かれた！
死神達を
出撃せよ

劇場版ブリーチ
地獄篇
前売券を買うと
人気キャラクタ　両面スマートポスターセットが貰えるぜ

ta12121 Wrote:質激せを [this one I have a feeling the kanji usage is wrong)

出撃せよ

Quote:地獄編

地獄篇

Quote:マオリケンのカード[This one is definitely wrong for sure)

前売券を買うと

Quote:人気キャラクタ　両面スマートポスターセット貰ぜ

人気キャラクター　両面スマートポスターセットが貰えるぜ

I've been doing something similar lately, i.e. transcribing Japanese Hip-hop lyrics. To my delight 2 years worth of studies haven't gone down the drain.

JimmySeal Wrote:

ta12121 Wrote:質激せを [this one I have a feeling the kanji usage is wrong)

出撃せよ

Quote:地獄編

地獄篇

Quote:マオリケンのカード[This one is definitely wrong for sure)

前売券を買うと

Quote:人気キャラクタ　両面スマートポスターセット貰ぜ

人気キャラクター　両面スマートポスターセットが貰えるぜ

Thanks for the corrections I knew a few things where wrong here but just couldn't put my eye to it.

P.S. when I look at your corrections, it makes prefect sense now haha (Next time I should look more closely at the visuals as well, they really help with what kanji has to be used in the right context)

Nesetoru Wrote:I've been doing something similar lately, i.e. transcribing Japanese Hip-hop lyrics. To my delight 2 years worth of studies haven't gone down the drain.

I'd say song transcription is harder than anything else (it's had to hear what they are exactly saying at times)
But like any skill, we just need to keep practicing until we become solid at it.

Bleach The DiamondDust Rebellion Trailer[ULTRA HIGH QUALITY] (This is the video title)

俺には　どういう事か分からね
どうして？
どうしてお前が？
答えろ！
劇場版ブリーチ
ザ ダイアモンドダスト リベリオン

(I'm sure this one is all correct but then again, mistakes happen without my knowing.)

＞俺には　ど言う事か分かれね
俺には　どういうことわからね

There's an う missing and I don't think you usually use kanji there.

pudding cat Wrote:＞俺には　ど言う事か分かれね
俺には　どういうことわからね

There's an う missing and I don't think you usually use kanji there.

thanks for the correction. As for the kanji usage, I've seen it used like that a lot of times. どう言う事か分かれね

ta12121 Wrote:thanks for the correction. As for the kanji usage, I've seen it used like that a lot of times. どう言う事か分かれね

Writing どういう as どう言う is defintely unusual. It's true that 事 and 分かる can be written with kanji, but as pudding cat points out, they are written without kanji most of the time.

It sounds to me like the end of that line is わからない. It might be わからね, but it's definitely not わかれね.

JimmySeal Wrote:

ta12121 Wrote:thanks for the correction. As for the kanji usage, I've seen it used like that a lot of times. どう言う事か分かれね

Writing どういう as どう言う is defintely unusual. It's true that 事 and 分かる can be written with kanji, but as pudding cat points out, they are written without kanji most of the time.

It sounds to me like the end of that line is わからない. It might be わからね, but it's definitely not わかれね.

ahh yea your right. Small error but it does need to be corrected and as for the kanji usages, I am known for liking there kanji equivalents but I understand it's best to stick with the more natural way of writing it. Thanks for pointing it out (I edited my early post and put the corrected version there)

Going to transcribe this scene(working on it). Should have it done soon

and this

and this

(3 project is enough, don't want to drown myself)

Hey does anyone have any methods or good tips on improving transcription skills? It's something I actually want to get into to. Any tips or ideas would be helpful

Thanks in advance!

ta12121 Wrote:Hey does anyone have any methods or good tips on improving transcription skills? It's something I actually want to get into to. Any tips or ideas would be helpful

A obvious tip; but why not try transcribing a few songs / movies / dramas that already have (native) Japanese transcriptions available? The harder the better (try and push yourself).

That way you can transcribe, then compare your results with the native version. Any confusing differences, ask for clarification on here or lang8.

Once your transcriptions start to 99% match the official ones, then your work is done!

aphasiac Wrote:

ta12121 Wrote:Hey does anyone have any methods or good tips on improving transcription skills? It's something I actually want to get into to. Any tips or ideas would be helpful

A obvious tip; but why not try transcribing a few songs / movies / dramas that already have (native) Japanese transcriptions available? The harder the better (try and push yourself).

That way you can transcribe, then compare your results with the native version. Any confusing differences, ask for clarification on here or lang8.

Once your transcriptions start to 99% match the official ones, then your work is done!

Makes sense, so I transcribe something to the best of my abilities and compare it with professional subtitles in Japanese or at least correct jp subs. Compare results, see where I went wrong and see the kanji in that usage. For some reason, I kinda know when it's wrong at times(a lot of times, I can miss the little sounds that can make the transcribe sound weird, so I gotta becareful on those types).

yep, should help with both kanji usage and missed sounds. You'll learn alot from seeing your own mistakes and working out why they're wrong. Same deal as posting finished transcriptions on here and lang8, just quicker and more efficient.

p.s. Maybe I'll just talking crap as I've never tried this; just makes sort of logical sense to give it a try!

ta12121 Wrote:For some reason, I kinda know when it's wrong at times(a lot of times, I can miss the little sounds that can make the transcribe sound weird, so I gotta becareful on those types).

This is actually an issue I ran into when practising listening to native Japanese media. Certain words / sounds are hard to hear or even dropped all together in normal conversation, and it's up to your brain to use its previous knowledge of the language + context to fill in the blanks. We do it all the time in our L1 and probably don't even notice.

For example, I get a bad phone call and hear my friend say "so what t--- do you wanna meet for dinner?". Can you guess the missing word? Seems trivially easy cos we've heard that pattern 1000's of times before. In fact I could probably miss out any word in that sentence and you'd be able to fill in the blank; that's where you need to get with Japanese.

EDIT: on a side-note, I remember the J-Drama 'Nihongo no shiranai nihonjin' had very literal subs. They seemed to transcribe exactly what was being said on screen, including umm's errr's, contractions and dropped syllables. I made a subs2srs deck and it took ages working out what the hell some of the casual sentences were meant to mean because of this. You can get it on D-addicts; not sure if it'll help or not, but was suprising to see exact subs compared to say The Matrix (where the Japanese voice dub and subs don't really match).

makes sense, guess I should find subs and then transcribe them to the best of my abilities and compare. Plus I can double check and see how it works with the context. I know there is a site that transcribes anime songs in full, those are helpful and fine(and hard, all at the same time).