I had my journal translated from English into Japanese by Mr. Google.
- the original text: id:yagian:20110126:1296033242
- the translation by Google: id:yagian:20110126:1296046593
- the translation by yagian: id:yagian:20110126:1296032849
Honestly speaking I can’t use Google translate at all. I will point out some of the mistakes, which Google made.
Although a German word might have just one corresponding English word, an English can be translated into many different Japanese words depending on the context.
In this context I used the word "journal" to mean "diary" on my weblog by the word "journal", but Google automatically translated "journal" into "雑誌(zashi)" which means "magazine" in Japanese.
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Recently I have tweeted in English and written journals on my weblog in English and Japanese.
最近、私は英語でつぶやいたが、私の雑誌を書いて ウェブログ 日本語と英語。
最近、ツィートは英語で、ウェブログは英語と日本語で書いている。
Google can't translate a complex sentence appropriately, especially one which includes a relative pronoun.
The word order in the Japanese sentence, which was translated by Google, isn't really appropriate. So much so that I can't understand the meaning of it at all. It is almost impossible even to guess it.
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I understand the English grammar that I learned in school at least, but when I write something in English I actually don't know which is suitable "a" or "the".
私は私は、少なくとも学校で学んだとき、私は私が実際には""または""適しているかわからない英語で何かを書いて英語の文法を理解しています。
一応学校で習った文法で基本的なルールは理解しているはずだけど、実際には、ここは"a"なのか"the"なのか判断つかないことも多い。
On the other hand, Google can appropriately translate a simple English sentence into a Japanese one with the same word order.
It isn't a perfect translation, but I can guess its meaning.
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I can't accept any of those words completely, but I guess that "understand" is most appropriate.
私は完全にそれらの単語のいずれかを受け入れることができないが、私は"理解"最も適切だと思います。
どの単語もいまひとつしっくりこない。しいて言えば"understand"かなと思う。
But in some other cases Google translated an English sentence into a Japanese one with the same word order, and the translation doesn't sounded natural in Japanese.
Sometimes translations by Google aren't correct in grammar. If Google used a spell check function like MS Word, its translation would be readable.
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I looked up "sympathize" in a thesaurus, and I found the following words.
私はシソーラス共感"の"見て、私は言葉を見つけた次の。
シソーラスで"sympathize"をひくと、次のような単語がでてくる。
This sentence isn't so complicated, so I can’t understand the reason why Google translated it into such odd Japanese. I can't ignore the mixture of a polite form and a casual form.
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I like Linus in the comic "Peanuts", because I can understand what he feels and thinks of.
私の好きな ナスを の彼が何を感じていると考えて理解することができますのがあるので"漫画ピーナッツ"。
私は「ピーナッツ」のライナスが好きだ。彼の感じること、考えていることが理解できるから。
When you translate English to Japanese, you should not make a literal translation. You should interpret the meaning of the original sentence deeply and make up a natural sounding Japanese sentence. It might be difficult for software to do it.
I'd like to know a web service that can translate Japanese into English, and English into Japanese adequately.
