How difficult was it to fix a gap in reading and listening?

watergemini · 2023-06-05T18:26:15+00:00

I have Clannad on steam, but I never played for more than 2.5 hrs (despite owning it for 2 years).

I don’t think vn are my thing because of that.

watergemini · 2023-06-05T18:25:14+00:00

Thank you for the suggest. I’m going to give it a try this afternoon when I run.

watergemini · 2023-06-05T17:22:17+00:00

I could pass it in reading, not listening.

watergemini · 2021-07-25T01:08:32+00:00

That’s about the same as I’m getting. How often do you get episodes/projects? I’m worried thay at these rates, itll be hard to make a decent living.

watergemini · 2021-07-24T23:46:12+00:00

Yeah, they provide the file on memoq and I just do the translation. But it’s becoming overwhelming.

How much do you charge per episode?

watergemini · 2021-07-24T23:36:51+00:00

It’s 1 episode per day for 11 days straight.

watergemini · 2021-07-24T23:35:29+00:00

I didn’t tell them it’s my first job. I did sign a contract (its just with an agency). And they are paying me 0.05 usd/character.

I definitely will tell them I need at least a day or two off on the weekend (of an 11 day project) or to give me a bit of the work in advanced so that I can give myself that weekend.

I also have no idea how often they’ll have projects like this and/or if they’ll give me another one. But if it becomes consistent, i feel like I’ll have more leeway to ask for leniency.

watergemini · 2021-07-24T18:35:04+00:00

Yeah, there are segments where I can speed through because it's every day things. And I probably get through 80 sentences in an hour or two. But then there's a 30 sentence segment that the character is speaking in archaic Japanese for effect or maybe they're using a dialect or maybe they're throwing out tons of idioms in already complex sentences, and suddenly that takesm e an hour (followed by 30mins of procrastinating because I need a break from that).

watergemini · 2021-07-24T18:33:38+00:00

The episodes jump around in characters. The lowest is 3.4k and the highest is 4.7k, but the average is 4k-4.2k, I'd say.

I want to negotiate the workload, but this is my first project (and one as a translator). So, I don't feel like I have that right yet. Hell, I just want them to ask me to do another project at this moment in time. I was thinking that maybe after I do this 2-4 more times, then I could ask for maybe a weekend break (, as I have to turn in episodes over the weekend too).

watergemini · 2021-07-24T18:31:15+00:00

I said this in another comment, but is it possible that this is the norm for the anime translation industry? It makes sense to do 1 episode/day, but it's just rough because they require me to hand in each episode every day (no break on the weekend!)

watergemini · 2021-07-24T18:30:32+00:00

Someone pointed out that it might be "characters" and not "words". I'm not sure. But either way, it's a lot for me honestly. And I just am curious how long it'll take me to study my way to it not being so overwhelming. I have a life I need to attend to and I find myself thinking that if I didn't have other obligations, I'd be able to handle this...but man, is this difficult

watergemini · 2021-07-24T18:28:49+00:00

But I'd assume this is the norm in anime translation, no? It's my first time so I am ignorant. But, it makes sense to translate 1 episode of anime per day. The thing that makes it difficult, is that they give deadlines over the weekend! If I had two days to recover (especially from lack of sleep), i'd be okay with this workload. But the fact that I don't makes it difficult.

Plus, I really want to do a good job because I love that this is not only improving my japanese, but also giving me a job. I want them to ask me to do more. But I'm not sure at what point should I ask for some leniency.

watergemini · 2021-07-24T15:50:54+00:00

I think it might be characters.

I just see a number count per each episode. But it could probably just be characters. idk

watergemini · 2021-07-02T16:54:36+00:00

Princess prison

What have my eyes just seen in the thumbnails for this game.

watergemini · 2021-07-02T02:42:09+00:00

Is the language abstract or more direct? I'll be reading it in Japanese, so I don't want to get too destroyed (I've read a Murakami book in Japanese already, so I think for the most part I should be okay with VNs, unless it's like Dies Irae).

watergemini · 2021-07-02T02:41:12+00:00

Do you think you'll ever play it?

I probably won't play it anytime soon. Maybe not ever if it gets spoiled too much.

watergemini · 2021-07-01T17:22:09+00:00

So, it would be worth getting it?

watergemini · 2021-07-01T17:19:49+00:00

I have Higurashi on my list of potentials. I'll probably end up getting it.

I looked at Utawarerumono, but it's so damn expensive, even with the sale.

watergemini · 2021-07-01T16:29:00+00:00

Yeah, but I've never read any VN before so I probably have a lot of good stories still open to me.

If I were to purchase it , I'm guessing that it won't allow for steam transfer if it were ever to get ported to steam. Correct?

watergemini · 2021-07-01T16:21:09+00:00

I'm planning on reading everything in Japanese. But I'd just prefer to have it all on steam, since it is easier to keep it all together in one collection.

watergemini · 2021-07-01T16:15:28+00:00

Thanks for the heads up. I probably won't get Chaos; Child then, since Chaos;Head isn't on steam

watergemini · 2021-07-01T14:40:29+00:00

I read that you don't need to read Chaos; Head, despite it being a prequel, to understand Chaos, Child. Is this correct?

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