/jp/ - Otaku Culture

ATLAS has more configuration options, but as for quality of translation, no.

no. its litereal translations. Itll probably cost a bit of money for a program that can take japanese grammer and convert it to english grammer, if such a program exsists.

Rikaichan, built into FireFox.

>>411192
rikaichan - firefox PLUGIN

>>413355
>12:07
>20:53

Slowpoke, go faster!

http://www.excite.co.jp/world/english/
Gives an easier to read translation.

-Duh-
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?9T
Jim Breen automatically wins over others

http://www.google.co.jp/language_tools?hl=en (Google translation tool)
http://babelfish.altavista.com/
http://www.excite.co.jp/world/english/ (more accurate translations than through Google)
http://translation.infoseek.co.jp/
http://www.ocn.ne.jp/translation/
http://honyaku.yahoo.co.jp/transtext
http://tool.nifty.com/globalgate/ (adds translation below original text on pages)
http://7go.biz/translation/ (10 translation engines!)
http://www.hiragana.jp/ (adds furigana)
http://sp.cis.iwate-u.ac.jp/sp/lesson/j/doc/furigana.html (same thing)

>>413374
Meh, it may seem that way, but it's not very good.
Observe:
私も魚は食べます
This means 'I also eat if it's fish'
Instead, you get 'The fish eats me'

>>413404

and also this (forgot to add)
http://nihongo.j-talk.com/parser/

>>413410
Don't you use を for 食べます?

>>413433

No, you're describing a habit, not something you're doing here and now.

>>413445
私も魚は食べます
The fish eats me.
--
私も魚を食べます
I also eat the fish.

>>413473
>The fish also eats me.

>>413473
Now I'm totally confused.

>>413481
It -is- I also eat if it's fish
If you need proof just look it up in a book or go talk to someone.

Try getting a fish to eat you in Google Translate.

>>411174
Just install the TakaJun plugin for firefox. It's much better than Rikaichan. The only problem is the installer...

1. Steal a Japanese girl.
2. Wire her up.
3. GHOST IN THE MACHINE
4. PROFIT
5. Raep.

>>413518
Where can I get that? Tried googling and looking for it on addons.mozilla.org but can't find anything so far.

>>413585

>>413503
私もはしで魚を食べます
I also eat fish with chopsticks.

私もはしを魚を食べます
I also eat chopsticks and chopsticks eats fish.

私もはしに魚を食べます
Chopsticks and I also eat the fish.

私もはしで魚は食べます
The fish eats me with chopsticks.

私もはしで魚が食べます
The fish eats me with chopsticks. (confirm tone)

You guys are homos.

ahahah at the troll first reply

NO

>>413644
Are you calling me a faget?

>>413612
Are you just spitting out random stuff from the translatng sites? Because the grammar is all messed up.
Listen up. You're never going to find the perfect translating site. This is because translating sites are made by people who like laughing at your painfully messed up pen pal letter or youtube comment.
>>私もはしを魚を食べます
>>I also eat chopsticks and chopsticks eats fish.
You're using を twice, which you shouldn't do unless you're using します.
>>私もはしに魚を食べます
>>Chopsticks and I also eat the fish.
Considering it has はし with に it sounds like 'I also eat fish for chopsticks'
>>私もはしで魚は食べます
>>The fish eats me with chopsticks.
By chopsticks, I also eat if it's fish.
>>私もはしで魚が食べます
>>The fish eats me with chopsticks. (confirm tone)
I also eat fish by chopsticks (although the が sounds weird...)

>>414588
>Are you just spitting out random stuff from the translatng sites?

Yes.

Translation sites yield useful, understandable text only when the sentence structure is fairly close to the source language.

With languages like Japanese, where each sentence can be reworded in multiple ways by shuffling around the subject, direct object, time, location, etc, it's harder to get an accurate translation.

This isn't even mentioning how machine translators stumble over more complicated styles of writing (prose in literature), or just plain old long-winded sentences.

tl;dr Best way: Learn some basic Japanese grammar and then let Rikaichan do the rest.

>>414654

Yea. It is very useful to know at least some basics to determine how accurate a translation ended up. But there are also so many confusing things that are hard to tell.

Like for example:
いいな

As far as I can tell it means envious, but it could also just be いい for good, and the な just being there like ね.

At least that is what I get out of eow.alc.co.jp.

>>413591
>>413585
>>413518
Oh God, I lolled. Well done.

Is there a way to do automatic clipboard translation with these websites, for use with AGTH? There are games ATLAS doesn't seem to take well to.

THE FISH FUCKING EATS ME WITH FUCKING CHOPSTICKS
GODDAMN

>>414607

is there a way to get rikaichan to display romaji?

>>416203