Japanese is always hard.

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Translate Fail
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I saw quite a few people doing this assignment
so I decided to do one too.

I type in:

?????????
?anata ga shachou desu)

You are the president.

I took this phrase from a Japanese book I bought the other day.
It looks simple.

But:

Is your president.

It’s not even a complete sentence.

I wonder how this worked out.
I think it’s like
??????your
????is
???? president

and it somehow turned out like that.

I found another interesting fail.
Which is this:

???????suk quickly
?yakusoku, promise)

This came through when I was thinking of another sentence.

Type it in kanji, and it works fine.

Maybe the problem was with the hiragana I worked with.
So I try some words in hiragana.


They work fine.

But

doesn’t change.

I understand that GoogleTranslate works with patterns of grammar,
but I couldn’t understand how this worked.

GoogleTranslate is surely interesting.

(?=?=´)?

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de106 #3 I have been in here! (by using google map)

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First of all, here is my hometown. I was born in Tokyo, and during elementary school, I lived Fukuyama city with my family. Fukuyama city locates in Hiroshima Prefecture, and second-largest city in Hiroshima Prefecture.


Secondary, when I was in junior high school and high school, I was in dorm which is at Matsuyama city in Ehime prefecture.





This city has many spas like “Dougo-Onsen.” and known as the origin of “Haiku.”

and then, I moved to Tokyo!

I love these cities, and maybe the end of next year, I will move to California!! 
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de106 #3 I have been in here! (by using google map)

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First of all, here is my hometown. I was born in Tokyo, and during elementary school, I lived Fukuyama city with my family. Fukuyama city locates in Hiroshima Prefecture, and second-largest city in Hiroshima Prefecture.


Secondary, when I was in junior high school and high school, I was in dorm which is at Matsuyama city in Ehime prefecture.





This city has many spas like “Dougo-Onsen.” and known as the origin of “Haiku.”

and then, I moved to Tokyo!

I love these cities, and maybe the end of next year, I will move to California!! 
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de106 #3 I have been in here! (by using google map)

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First of all, here is my hometown. I was born in Tokyo, and during elementary school, I lived Fukuyama city with my family. Fukuyama city locates in Hiroshima Prefecture, and second-largest city in Hiroshima Prefecture.


Secondary, when I was in junior high school and high school, I was in dorm which is at Matsuyama city in Ehime prefecture.





This city has many spas like “Dougo-Onsen.” and known as the origin of “Haiku.”

and then, I moved to Tokyo!

I love these cities, and maybe the end of next year, I will move to California!! 
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de106 #3 I have been in here! (by using google map)

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First of all, here is my hometown. I was born in Tokyo, and during elementary school, I lived Fukuyama city with my family. Fukuyama city locates in Hiroshima Prefecture, and second-largest city in Hiroshima Prefecture.


Secondary, when I was in junior high school and high school, I was in dorm which is at Matsuyama city in Ehime prefecture.





This city has many spas like “Dougo-Onsen.” and known as the origin of “Haiku.”

and then, I moved to Tokyo!

I love these cities, and maybe the end of next year, I will move to California!! 
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Google Maps Story

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For this assignment, I chose Sapporo (capital of Hokkaido, which is the northernmost island of Japan) because I went there with my high school teachers and friends before graduation. We saw Sapporo City. It was very beautiful and different from Tokyo. The roads were broad and there was plenty of greenery. Sapporo is renowned for the Shiroi Koibito chocolate brand. Here is the map.


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The idea for this type of interesting assignment was submitted by David, who is also known as Mr. Thimble.

Following are the steps I used to embed the Google map.

1) I searched Sapporo Google map.

2) I clicked on the Link button (which is after the Get Directions, My Places, and is to the right-side of Print button) in the left-side panel. 

3) Then, I copied the HTML code to be embedded and pasted that code in the Edit HTML tab of the blog.

4) After pasting, I just clicked on the Compose tab.

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Google Maps Story

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For this assignment, I chose Sapporo (capital of Hokkaido, which is the northernmost island of Japan) because I went there with my high school teachers and friends before graduation. We saw Sapporo City. It was very beautiful and different from Tokyo. The roads were broad and there was plenty of greenery. Sapporo is renowned for the Shiroi Koibito chocolate brand. Here is the map.


View Larger Map

The idea for this type of interesting assignment was submitted by David, who is also known as Mr. Thimble.

Following are the steps I used to embed the Google map.

1) I searched Sapporo Google map.

2) I clicked on the Link button (which is after the Get Directions, My Places, and is to the right-side of Print button) in the left-side panel. 

3) Then, I copied the HTML code to be embedded and pasted that code in the Edit HTML tab of the blog.

4) After pasting, I just clicked on the Compose tab.

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Google Maps Story

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For this assignment, I chose Sapporo (capital of Hokkaido, which is the northernmost island of Japan) because I went there with my high school teachers and friends before graduation. We saw Sapporo City. It was very beautiful and different from Tokyo. The roads were broad and there was plenty of greenery. Sapporo is renowned for the Shiroi Koibito chocolate brand. Here is the map.


View Larger Map

The idea for this type of interesting assignment was submitted by David, who is also known as Mr. Thimble.

Following are the steps I used to embed the Google map.

1) I searched Sapporo Google map.

2) I clicked on the Link button (which is after the Get Directions, My Places, and is to the right-side of Print button) in the left-side panel. 

3) Then, I copied the HTML code to be embedded and pasted that code in the Edit HTML tab of the blog.

4) After pasting, I just clicked on the Compose tab.

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Google Maps Story

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0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 50 votes, average: 0.00 out of 50 votes, average: 0.00 out of 50 votes, average: 0.00 out of 50 votes, average: 0.00 out of 5

For this assignment, I chose Sapporo (capital of Hokkaido, which is the northernmost island of Japan) because I went there with my high school teachers and friends before graduation. We saw Sapporo City. It was very beautiful and different from Tokyo. The roads were broad and there was plenty of greenery. Sapporo is renowned for the Shiroi Koibito chocolate brand. Here is the map.


View Larger Map

The idea for this type of interesting assignment was submitted by David, who is also known as Mr. Thimble.

Following are the steps I used to embed the Google map.

1) I searched Sapporo Google map.

2) I clicked on the Link button (which is after the Get Directions, My Places, and is to the right-side of Print button) in the left-side panel. 

3) Then, I copied the HTML code to be embedded and pasted that code in the Edit HTML tab of the blog.

4) After pasting, I just clicked on the Compose tab.

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Google Translate Fail2: WebAssignment

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This assignment is called “Google Translate Fail” by Steven Q. Dangerfist.
Here is the description of the assignment.
Find something in a foreign language and use Google Translate and laugh about how awful it is. Its pretty easy to do if you use Google Chrome. Just go to a site in another language and select the translate to English button when it pops up (options – under the hood – check the box that says to offer translations). I think you can also use the main google.com to translate pages as well. If its a language you know, give an explanation of what it should be and list possible reasons it got messed up.

So here is what I did:

I put text???????????(kyou ha ame ga hutte masu)??in Japanese.
In English, that means ” It is rainig today.”
I put this text just because it is rainig today.

Google translate fail txt1

The answer I got was

Google translate fail result

I rainig today??? lol
If you read this weird sentense, you might kinda get a sense what it’s about… but this translation is not good…
I knew that Google Translate does not work well, especially between English and Japanese but I did not expect this bad. (worse than my horrible English… :P)
The original sentence was so simple and I thought this couldn’t go wrong.

The subject sentence is ??(today), not ?(I). I have no idea why it translated like this.
Google Translate might be fun to mess up and laugh about but it is not for academic use like many people point out that google translate cannot be depended on :(

Well, I tried a second try changing a little bit of the original sentence.
I rewrote it from spoken language into formal, written Japanese, just adding ???.

?????????????
 ?
??????????????

Google translate fail Text2

The result I got was this

Google translate success :)

Google Translated successfully for this time!! :)

Maybe Google Translate is not so bad??? 
or is it just an miracle? :P

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The process of this assignment:
I used Google Translate and tried some translation from Japanese into English. I took these pictures step by step with my iphone and uploaded to Flickr and then embeded here.

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