Japanese translation - help needed [Archive]

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

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/embroidery-service-embroidered-belts-c-153_157.html?osCsid=6055101b9c14913a3f69981b11dd12 4a

Dai

18-04-2009, 19:48

デイヴィッドの空手のマスター

http://www1.worldlingo.com/en/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html

:)

Osem

18-04-2009, 20:16

Thanks guys!!!

:tu:

Dai

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.aspx?nav=messages&webtag=ab-japanese

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

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

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.....