duskmon10

Hello again, time to redo this thing. And hopefully it'll be more interesting this time around. That may be incredibly unlikely, but I'll go ahead and do it anyway.

Some random personal info:

Age: 20

Sex: Male

Education: Sophomore in college double majoring in Global Studies and Journalism.

Current job: Unemployed, looking for a part-time job so I can save up for when I go to Japan in a year or two.

Goal: I want to be a translator. After Japanese I plan on learning other languages.

Hobbies: Reading manga, studying Japanese, translating manga, watching TV, surfing the web, stereotypical nerd hobbies, etc.

Status of Japanese: I started studying kanji and other vocab a few weeks ago. I'd say it's going alright. I've already memorized over 100 new kanji.

Areas to work on: Sentence structures, I suck at remembering the particles and how to form other sentences and I also need to start studying how to conjugate verbs among other things. But considering the fact that I'm more or less self-taught, I'd say I'm doing pretty good so far.

Scanlation group: Trinity BAKumA

Projects: Fairy Tail and Beelzebub.
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Note to those who read my translations: As I've said many, many, many times already, I'm still a new translator who hasn't fully learned the Japanese language yet. As a result I end up making a lot of mistakes if there's nothing for me to reference. It'd be nice if other translators would provide some constructive criticism (areas to work on, etc.) among their corrections instead of just pointing out my obvious mistakes. But this is the internet after all, so I expect there to be the occasional comment that serves no other purpose than to insult me.


When some of my friends asked me to be the translator for their new scanlation group, I was really reluctant because of my lack of experience. But I decided to go ahead and give it a try anyway and I'm glad I did. I enjoy being in a group with Nic and Shini, and our newest members Kat and Snow. They've never once criticized me for not being as good as other translators and I'm glad they're so patient with me. In fact, being in a group has motivated me to study harder than ever before and I'm determined to improve my skills to the point where I can translate a chapter by myself with no errors by the end of the year.