Japanese translation - help needed

Osem · 18-04-2009, 15:07

Hi guys. My eldest is currently studying for his karate black belt and I would like to surprise him with a personalised embroidered black silk belt when he finally achieves his ambition. Ideally I want to translate his name into Japanese and include a meanignful message in Japanese symbols on the belt but am finding that although there are some sites on the web which give translations, my PC won't display them properly if at all.

Does anyone know of a reliable free online tranlsation service which will cope with English to Japanese and do I need to download some extra software to display these Japanese characters?

Thanks folks

JediMaster · 18-04-2009, 15:23

You can do your name on http://japanesetranslator.co.uk/your-name-in-japanese/ & save the JPG image. This could be imported to Word or any Program to Print out & glue to a Card. Or trace it on a Belt.

Peter_ · 18-04-2009, 16:19

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Originally Posted by Osem

Hi guys. My eldest is currently studying for his karate black belt and I would like to surprise him with a personalised embroidered black silk belt when he finally achieves his ambition. Ideally I want to translate his name into Japanese and include a meanignful message in Japanese symbols on the belt but am finding that although there are some sites on the web which give translations, my PC won't display them properly if at all.

Does anyone know of a reliable free online tranlsation service which will cope with English to Japanese and do I need to download some extra software to display these Japanese characters?

Thanks folks

Here are a couple of links the first one says they do English to Japanese translations on the belts.

http://www.touchsheffield.com/business/list/bid/3743003

http://www.black-eagle.co.uk/embroid...69981b11dd124a

DaiNasty · 18-04-2009, 19:48

デイヴィッドの空手のマスター

http://www1.worldlingo.com/en/produc...ranslator.html

Osem · 18-04-2009, 20:16

Thanks guys!!!

DaiNasty · 18-04-2009, 22:19

One last thought. Possibly a Japanese forum may be a good place to ask as there may be special characters relating to martial arts. Here's one:

http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum....ag=ab-japanese

heero_yuy · 19-04-2009, 11:24

As a rule foreign names and words use the Kana script, effectively the upper case of the hiragana. There are 42 main phonetic characters. Use the closest approximation as certain sounds from English have no direct Japanese equivelent e.g. St Also L and R are not distinguished with the Japanese language having a sound intermediate between them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kana Table of sounds here.

Hom3r · 19-04-2009, 12:28

Becareful though.

I did read somewhere that a celeb had one of there kids names in Japanese/arabic or such but the translation in english was something else.

Osem · 19-04-2009, 12:42

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Originally Posted by Hom3r

Becareful though.

I did read somewhere that a celeb had one of there kids names in Japanese/arabic or such but the translation in english was something else.

Yes apparently that's quite common.

Since posting, I've found a few professional looking sites with the words/symbols (kanji) I want so it's looking good.

Thanks again.

Peter_ · 10-06-2009, 21:13

Did you get the belt printed.

Callumpy · 10-06-2009, 21:52

On my black belt ive got my name written in english and just some random stuff on the other end of the belt i think it says tae kwon do and some other stuff in korean.

But it does look cool

Osem · 11-06-2009, 15:37

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Originally Posted by Moldova

Did you get the belt printed.

No not yet - don't want to tempt fate as his Black Belt grading is still around 6 months away, barring injuries etc.....