화초서생
In terms of genre, 구르미 그린 달빛 checks all the boxes for me–historical rom-com, crossdressing (guilty pleasure don’t judge), princes who pretend they aren’t princes, and dramatic angst delivered in the most delicious of ways.
All posts tagged: Translation
東方神起 – 忘れないで 한국어 번역
TVXQ’s 忘れないで (“Don’t Forget”) is one of my favorite songs ever by the first K-pop group I ever liked (*sob*) and now… I’ve tried to translate it into Korean!! My Japanese is deplorable so looking up every single grammar point and vocabulary word I didn’t know was time consuming, but in the end I managed to get a sense of what the song was about. Please be warned, this translation was only for practice. I still have a long way to go before my Japanese (and Korean, too, for that matter) is good enough to provide a decent translation. After I did my translation, I compared it to one I found online and I was surprised to see that a lot of the lines matched! That sure raised my confidence in understanding Japanese and writing Korean. Video below and lyrics after the break.^^ video credit: s3adolphin
Learning Korean Through Translation
I’m a huge proponent of learning a language through translation. In fact, most of the vocabulary and grammar structures I know now are thanks to my attempts to learn Korean by “translating” K-pop songs. Not only did I learn new things, I also figured out what the song meant! But, please note, these are all still amateur translations. A successful translation captures both the meaning and style of a work and if you use translation as a means to learn a language, you can only hope to master one aspect at the beginner level (meaning). Once you’ve mastered the language (if there is such a thing), you can learn to capture the style of the original work as well.
