221 – Guest Gaiden 3 – Interpreting with Jocelyne Allen

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221 – Guest Gaiden 3 – Interpreting with Jocelyne Allen

This week translator extraordinaire Jocelyne Allen returns to answer our questions about working as an interpreter and how it differs from translating books!

Check out Jocelyne’s blog & her professional website!

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Time Stamps:

  • 00:00:00 – Intro Song: “Shadow and Truth” by ONE III NOTES from ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept., Opening, Introductions
  • 00:01:08 – Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: Dragon Ball Z OST “Prologue”, dakazu tried to go back to My Boy but it only confirmed his fears
  • 00:04:47 – The potential horror in I Want to Hold Aono-kun so Badly I Could Die has dakazu interested to read more
  • 00:09:27 – dakazu found Neo Yokio: Pink Christmas surprisingly enjoyable
  • 00:12:32 – News: Eleven Arts will be bringing A Silent Voice back to movie theaters in January 2019
  • 00:15:09 – Fans want a new translation for Viz Media’z Dragon Ball manga box set
  • 00:17:54 – Next Episode Preview and Rundown: 2018 Year End Review with Morgana “Manga Maven” Santilii, we’ll be presenting Top 3 lists for anime & manga and discussing everything from 2018
  • 00:18:59 – Main Segment Guest Gaiden: Transition Song: “Free Bird” by New Cinema Tokage from Project ARMS, Translator Jocelyne Allen explains what interpreting is
  • 00:20:54 – Jocelyne explains how her role as an interpreter varies based on the needs of the client
  • 00:23:25 – We ask Jocelyne how she got started as an interpreter
  • 00:27:49 – Working as both a translator and an interpreter is uncommon, Jocelyne shares how her experiences translating & interpreting have effect each other
  • 00:31:25 – Jocelyne researches everything about her interpreter clients to prepare
  • 00:34:50 – Darfox wants to know if Jocelyne ever had to protect her clients from rude questions
  • 00:40:33 – Darfox and dakazu share personal stories about interpreting for their parents, we discuss the difficulty of translating from one language to another
  • 00:44:55 – We complain about being asked to translate for the sake of entertaining friends
  • 00:46:53 – We ask Jocelyne why Inio Asano is seemingly being mocked in his cameos within other people’s manga
  • 00:52:47 – Jocelyne current favorite manga is Yuria-sensei no Akai Ito
  • 00:54:49 – Next Week’s Topic: 2018 Year End Review, House Keeping, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “wish men” by sunbrain from Beet the Vandel Buster

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