[HIDETCHI-san's Video Series] How to Play Shogi

@Kaiwan: First, I answer to your question via takodori-san to me here. Yes, I can handle both 繁體字 and 简体字 on my PC.

@Kaiwan & xDAZZE: I don't know well about Chinese language, but am I wrong in understanding that "fantizi or jiantizi" are just a matter of simple transformation? I mean, I thought basically the words are the same between main land and HK. (except for pronounciation, and fanti/jianti) Like, 飛車/飞车, 龍馬/龙马. If so, wouldn't it be better that for example one of you do both traditional and simplified for lesson#1 and the other do both tradiational and simplified for lesson#2, than one of you doing traditional and the other doing simplified for both lesson#1&#2 ?

@ Hidetchi-san: My computer cannot type Fantizi. By the way, how did you know some Jiantizi :O

And also, HOW & WHERE do I do the translations? :\

@xDAZZE: It seems there are some free online web tools that can transform between traditional and simplifed. I believe Kaiwan knows about it better than me.

I can probably find out.

By the way, just wondering (completely off-topic), what do you do for a living? xD Because you speak English extremely fluently and well, plus you seem to know some other foreign languages as well.

Well he did graduate from Toudai so his English has to be decent to even get into the University.

I don't speak French fluently, but I might be able to help out with the French subtitles. I'll see if I can get one of my French-speaking friends to help me make them.

I posted the informaiton on Forum Shogi France. Hope some French will respond.

http://shogifrance.fr-bb.com/english-forum-f4/subtitles-project-for-how-to-play-shogi-t682.htm

Thanks for posting that, Takodori. It would be better for a better French speaker to translate than me, since I have to use a dictionary for translations.

great idea.
I've started to translate further series into german language.

kind regards
marcchan, shogi.de

Polish translation looks poor to me. "Knight" in Lesson#2 is translated as "kon" (lit. "horse") which is a very old and so unprofessional term for its chess equivalent. In chess we use "skoczek" (lit. "jumper") and I think "skoczek" is a better term.
And let's not forget that we have "horse" (馬, uma) for promoted bishop in the Japanese shogi. So Hidetchi, I think we need a consult here.

Yes, there is koń in one place... But i remember that in next lessons i changed it into skoczek

There should be no changes, I think. If we get to a consensus - I can easily translate at least one video per week(end).

hey guys,
i just found out about this page in hidetchi-san's video about the translation-project and registered.
one thing i wanted to say right away is that i'd like to offer my help with german subtitles if necessary. since marcchan has been doing it all alone i thought i might help him a bit (only of he wants some help of course).


regards,
phoenix

@Radaz, oneye: Thanks for making suggestion and thanks for the quick reply. If you two agree that "skoczek" is better, and if it's only the matter of lesson#1, I can change the word my self in lesson#1. Shall I do that? [I hope "skoczek" doesn't include any unique alphabets of polish in real :-) ]
Anyway, I'd be glad if more Polish subtitles become available, and refined.

@Phoenix: Thanks for offering your help. I guess Marcchan will appreciate your help since it'd be easier if you split the work, though he's already written his name all through lesson#16 or so. :-)
And I like your picture of your avatar. It's cool!

Hidetchi wrote:Anyway, I'd be glad if more Polish subtitles become available, and refined.

I think I'll suggest some cosmetic changes, i.e. when it comes to pawn it is literally said that it can move "one forward" and the word "square" is omitted. I think it's way too colloquial...

So....　がんばりましょう！