Thank you so much to all of you who read and supported me throughout my unofficial translation of Can’t Think Straight. I really had fun translating this story, and I am truly going to miss it. It's a little hard to explain, but one of my big rules when I translate something is that if it also has an official I try to water down the dialogue as much as I can so that it doesn't stray too far from the official. I just felt I should clarify that so people know there were intentional changes. What I mean is that if a character says something that might alter the story I will look at both meanings and settle on a middle ground. So that makes me excited to read the official in full and play spot the differences lol. Also, now that the last chapter of the official is posted I feel I can safely admit that I am not fluent in Korean. I didn't want people downplaying the days of effort I put into every single chapter of my unofficial translation, and compare me to the people who spend 5 minutes, if that, doing machine translations. I would like you all to know a little insight into how I am able to translate despite not knowing Korean. I have an intermediate level understanding of Japanese grammar, and Korean and Japanese are almost identical languages when it comes to sentence structure and grammar rules. Once I learned how similar they were, I was able to learn how to break down Korean sentences while using the context of the panels as a guide to then choose the right synonyms. Also, particles (These are filler words that are placed within sentences and are placed between or after words that give context to the object, person or action of a sentence.) are so similar to Japanese that it made it easier to break down the Korean sentence properly. Even though I have a grasp on Korean grammar to a very high degree, I can't read a sentence out loud and have to break it down piece by piece to understand it. I need help from online forums like HiNative, the Korean Wikipedia page, and Naver (The official Korean dictionary website). I did pay a subscription for a translation program that is used by businesses, but it barely aided me. The program was called DeepL, and it was a good aide only for it’s drop down of synonyms, which made it visually easier to see all of the meanings of a word at a glance. As a full sentence translator though, it would give horribly written English sentences that sometimes would give a translation that made sense, but needed some slight tweaking, or I had to completely rewrite the entire sentence while acting as a human decoder of moon speech disguised as English. So a lot of the time, it would take more time to try and decipher what this translation software thought it said, vs just translating it myself (My second rule was never to take a single sentence of dialogue from a translator/ even a paid one, at face value). Another thing that helped me a lot is that I know how to write and speak hiragana/ katakana. Kanji will always be the death of me no matter many years I put into I trying to memorize them, they just don’t stick, but at least I have all of the stroke order rules memorized. With that, because Korean took heavy influence from Japanese when creating Hangul. From the beginning of translating from Korean I've been able to write it perfectly. Over all of this time, I have wrote Hangul so much that I can rewrite out a paragraph at light speed lol. As some of you know, back when I was on Bato, I was the unofficial translator for Missing Love: A Married Man, and unfortunately did not have access to the raws in Korean until the last 8 chapters of it. I learned from my experience working on Missing Love, that as long as you can learn the grammar of a language, you can translate anything regardless of fluency. Although, knowing if those unofficial translations I was using were accurate translations of the official work or not is another thing lol. Still, it was the first translation of a graphic novel I'd ever done, and the positive feedback from Missing Love gave me the confidence to start translating Can’t Think Straight. Yes, I worry sometimes about whether my translations are completely accruate, because I am not Korean, nor do I know the language. But after I take a step back and compare my chapters to the official, and read through all of the comments from people who truly loved my translation, it always gives me a boost in confidence that I am doing it right. I really appreciate all of you who read and enjoyed my translations, whether back on bato, or only on here. You guys are the best < 3
Thank you so much to all of you who read and supported me throughout my unofficial translation of Can’t Think Straight. I really had fun translating this story, and I am truly going to miss it. It's a little hard to explain, but one of my big rules when I translate something is that if it also has an official I try to water down the dialogue as much as I can so that it doesn't stray too far from the official. I just felt I should clarify that so people know there were intentional changes. What I mean is that if a character says something that might alter the story I will look at both meanings and settle on a middle ground. So that makes me excited to read the official in full and play spot the differences lol. Also, now that the last chapter of the official is posted I feel I can safely admit that I am not fluent in Korean. I didn't want people downplaying the days of effort I put into every single chapter of my unofficial translation, and compare me to the people who spend 5 minutes, if that, doing machine translations. I would like you all to know a little insight into how I am able to translate despite not knowing Korean. I have an intermediate level understanding of Japanese grammar, and Korean and Japanese are almost identical languages when it comes to sentence structure and grammar rules. Once I learned how similar they were, I was able to learn how to break down Korean sentences while using the context of the panels as a guide to then choose the right synonyms. Also, particles (These are filler words that are placed within sentences and are placed between or after words that give context to the object, person or action of a sentence.) are so similar to Japanese that it made it easier to break down the Korean sentence properly. Even though I have a grasp on Korean grammar to a very high degree, I can't read a sentence out loud and have to break it down piece by piece to understand it. I need help from online forums like HiNative, the Korean Wikipedia page, and Naver (The official Korean dictionary website). I did pay a subscription for a translation program that is used by businesses, but it barely aided me. The program was called DeepL, and it was a good aide only for it’s drop down of synonyms, which made it visually easier to see all of the meanings of a word at a glance. As a full sentence translator though, it would give horribly written English sentences that sometimes would give a translation that made sense, but needed some slight tweaking, or I had to completely rewrite the entire sentence while acting as a human decoder of moon speech disguised as English. So a lot of the time, it would take more time to try and decipher what this translation software thought it said, vs just translating it myself (My second rule was never to take a single sentence of dialogue from a translator/ even a paid one, at face value). Another thing that helped me a lot is that I know how to write and speak hiragana/ katakana. Kanji will always be the death of me no matter many years I put into I trying to memorize them, they just don’t stick, but at least I have all of the stroke order rules memorized. With that, because Korean took heavy influence from Japanese when creating Hangul. From the beginning of translating from Korean I've been able to write it perfectly. Over all of this time, I have wrote Hangul so much that I can rewrite out a paragraph at light speed lol. As some of you know, back when I was on Bato, I was the unofficial translator for Missing Love: A Married Man, and unfortunately did not have access to the raws in Korean until the last 8 chapters of it. I learned from my experience working on Missing Love, that as long as you can learn the grammar of a language, you can translate anything regardless of fluency. Although, knowing if those unofficial translations I was using were accurate translations of the official work or not is another thing lol. Still, it was the first translation of a graphic novel I'd ever done, and the positive feedback from Missing Love gave me the confidence to start translating Can’t Think Straight. Yes, I worry sometimes about whether my translations are completely accruate, because I am not Korean, nor do I know the language. But after I take a step back and compare my chapters to the official, and read through all of the comments from people who truly loved my translation, it always gives me a boost in confidence that I am doing it right. I really appreciate all of you who read and enjoyed my translations, whether back on bato, or only on here. You guys are the best < 3