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!

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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