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BTW: Please say 'Hi' to the rest of the group:)

hi 高い

hi
yuki;)

Hi Yuki, thanks for all your help so far by PM :)

I'm always ready to help even my english was poor...lol!!!.Because I like this site:)

Hi, Mike and You.

I am Small Windows Application Developer for hobbies.

Since the advertisement-oriented Japanese is troublesome, I want you to select a kind carefully. It is the greatest dissatisfaction. (example, Flashing Caution) .... and, I did join Royan Member.

Hi Hiroyuki. Thanks for your reply.

Wow! What kind of applications do you make?

I agree - adverts have to be selected carefully, some are ery annoying. We always review these.

OK, My develop softwares

Wow..over 40 Ppl Omedetou gozaimasu^^))v

hi everybody

hajimemashite yoroshiku onegaishimasu...
hello nice meeting you sir...im Maricris Demata
from hiroshima...im glad to be a member of japannesse Zorpia....yoroshiku...

hi!!
ok（=^◇^=）

Hi Hiromi - thanks for joining, I hope can get your valuable opinions :)

Hi~~Hello everybody~ Really glad to join this group and do sth. useful, wish everyone could enjoy here~~


2 every sweet heart and smart guy~~

Hi Mily - thanks for all your useful opinions so far!

helo everyone!!!
i'm really glad i can join this group as a member in japanese comunity....but!!!
matter that is i'm not a japanese.....haha...i'm a badass huh??
i can hardly know a japanese word or speak.....
haha.....so that's me.....if u guys accept .......-___-///

Hehe. I want to limit the number of non-japanese... but if you are able to contribute, then I'm happy for you so stay :)

hoho~ how could u know that who is the real Japanese? hihi~

Its true! I just do my best. Unfortunately - there are many Japanese 'fakers' on Zorpia.

me 2 ^^ Be disappointed?xixi~

Maybe I should conduct a Japanese writing test!

それは大丈夫っすよ、日本の大学でちゃんとトップ30で卒業したから、論文も日本語で書いたし、waiting 4 ur test,ha~lala~

Wow! Top 30 huh? And you wrote ALL of them in Japanese - thats impressive!

Did I pass?

Good job, that's right~
Then how about me?

Ok - I confess, my wife translated it for me. But I just dont wanna ban myself from this group!

Maybe part of my enthusiasm for creating a Japanese Zorpia, is that my wife is Japanese, and I have been to Japan a few times. Its kind of annoying to me that her friends are a little scared to join Zorpia, coz their english isn't that great. Solution www.zorpia.jp :)

へぇ。。。いいね～奥さんは幸せですねぇ(*＾ｰ＾*)ﾉ〃
Maybe it is a great chance 4 u 2 improve ur Japanese,then SOME DAY u could communicate with ur lovely wife in Japanese.

I'd like to introduce you to three members of this group, who are not Japanese, but have a keen interest in this group.

Jeffrey: He is Zorpia's CEO. He has successfully run a big Japanese site before, and is very aware of the challenges.

Sean: He works on my team at Zorpia, coming up with new ideas and planning projects.

Calvin: He is one of our managers for our software engineers, and is helping to organize the translation process.

My honor, can I just say



to these 3 guys here?

僕の３人のメンバーを紹介します。３人は日本人じゃないけど、このグループに興味があります。

ジェフリー；ゾーピアの社長。昔日本のサイトを建設し成功させ、このグループが会社の次のチャレンジと認識。

ショーン；僕のチームメンバーで次々とアイデアを運ぶアイデアマン。

カルビン；ソフトウェアエンジニアマネージャー、翻訳編成担当。

Hi Mike, thank you for introducing us your team mates.

Hi Jeff, Sean and Calvin.

hi guys!
http://translate.google.com <--- heres an idea now!
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それは大丈夫っすよ、日本の大学でちゃんとトップ30で卒業したから、論文も日本語で書いたし、
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The all right [tsu] it does that, because at the Japanese university you graduated properly in the top 30, you wrote also dissertation in Japanese and,

REALLY new idea, u r sooooooooooooooooooooo lovely~ha~

partnering with translation service websites like babel fish or google translate then working on a platform to display the site in almost every language? sounds like a programming nightmare though but translation isnt going to be easy with any language

ennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn, i think its just a little bit weird about the English......

Thats the problem with those translation services - its OK for individual words... but for whole pages... its very odd sometimes.



I have a Japanese Sony Vaio, and sometimes I go to Sony's Japanese site for drivers etc. I use google translate... and even though it helps... it gives really odd english. Sometimes even humorous ... a bit like www.engrish.com

well yea thats coz it got translated by a computer -- there is no grammar -- it switches the word / character with the translated word, so the English is all wrong.

Buttons, links, instructions -- anything that can be written before the user goes to the website can still be in Japanese but for now instant translations from Japanese to English are really going to sound like that no matter what:

English:
I am going to buy an umbrella today.

Automatically Translated Text:
私は傘を今日買おうと思っている。

-- im sure my Japanese grammar is wrong? can anyone re-write the sentence with their most fluent Japanese? I translated it BACK to English and got:

(from) Automatically Translated Text (in Japanese):
私は傘を今日買おうと思っている。

(to) English:
I intend today probably to buy the umbrella.

--as you can see, a lot gets lost as soon as we stick them in these translation machines -- for the buttons and links well need to have the best Japanese posted up

Yeah - cant beat a good human being!

Try this sentence
↓↓↓↓
今日、私は、傘を買いに行きたいです。

Came out pretty bad!

Japanese: 今日、私は、傘を買いに行きたいです。
English Tanslation: today, I the umbrella would like to go to buying, is.

I fed the translated part back into the system -- see what it comes up with

English: today, I the umbrella would like to go to buying, is.
Japanese translation: 今日、傘がある買うことを行くことを望むi。

Is that any better? Grammatically?

sorry, just kill me pls, that's not Japanese.....

マイクに頼まれて日本語訳しました。分かりますか？

Mike has asked me to translate one of his comments - so I did!!

Hi Sean that is a good site. I actually used the similar software before and it was very helpful. Especially if you have tons of translations to do!

konnichi wa, watashi wa shu yi desu.
hajimemashite, dozo yurishuku~~~^^