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Why are manhua translators not as 'good' when translating chinese works to english?
Why are manhua translators not as 'good' when translating chinese works to english?
Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful for their hardwork but it's just that 90% of the manhuas I've read have bad translations or they're so unnatural to the point that I think that a human didn't translate it. One thing I noticed that made me think they're all MTL is because they mostly use passive voice (ex. AV= She ate the lasagna, PV= The lasagna was eaten by her.)
I'm obviously not chinese but I'm an English speaker so I can at least pinpoint what's natural or not. Also the lack of slangs, in Korean and Japanese mangas the translators often use slangs (even if the raws didn't particularly use slangs) just to show characterization.
I was JUST about to say I think some use MTL lol. like it gets to a point. I've gotten used to it though cause I read shitty mtl novels on a daily. Also Chinese novels use a lot of idioms (especially the ancient China ones) and it go me staring at my screen like: reply
I have actually never seen any human tl manhua so can't say anything about them. But whichever one I picked up it was all MTL only. Especially manhuahot type websites. Secondly, as an ignorant person I may
have no say but Hangul is pretty easy language to learn compared to mandarin. Also the effect of Dramas. Many people will understand Basic Jap...... 1 reply
Dw guys, once I learn Chinese(let's hope this year) I'll translate anything for yall
Just give me like, huh, 2 years max
Only if it's in mandarin, I don't think I'll be able to do other dialects. Well, maybe Cantonese too
I'll be going to China, so trust guys 1 reply
In my opinion it's because Chinese uses a lot of idioms which are hard to translate and it's used very commonly to the point where you'd get an idiom every few paragraphs, so you'd either have to translate it weirdly or give a lot of context, or just change the whole sentence to give similar meaning (but obviously then you get inaccuracies).
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