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Foreign language in subtitles
Autor da sequência: Mary Giachetti
Mary Giachetti
Mary Giachetti  Identity Verified
Espanha
Local time: 15:27
Francês para Italiano
+ ...
May 28, 2020

Hello colleagues, I hope you can help with this.

In the video that I am traslating EN>IT, there are 2 people speaking English until one of them says something in Russian ("я тебя люблю", which means I love you) and the other replies also in Russian ("я тебя люблю тоже" which means I love you, too).

I think the viewers will have no problem understanding what it means. But am I supposed to translate those sentences into Italian anyway? And in case... See more
Hello colleagues, I hope you can help with this.

In the video that I am traslating EN>IT, there are 2 people speaking English until one of them says something in Russian ("я тебя люблю", which means I love you) and the other replies also in Russian ("я тебя люблю тоже" which means I love you, too).

I think the viewers will have no problem understanding what it means. But am I supposed to translate those sentences into Italian anyway? And in case I have to, how should I indicate my translation? Maybe with a different font/brackets/inverted commas?

Here's the dialogue between the 2:

Speaker 1 - "I love you, Nataliya. How do you say 'I love you' in Russian?"
Speaker 2 - "я тебя люблю".
Speaker 1 - "я тебя люблю".
Speaker 2 -"Great! я тебя люблю тоже".

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Sarper Aman
Sarper Aman  Identity Verified
Turquia
Local time: 16:27
Membro (2019)
Inglês para Turco
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covered by dialogue May 28, 2020

Hello Mary,

One of my vendors suggests not to translate the dialogue in such cases. As you said, looking at the context, viewer will understand what's being said. It's covered by the previous dialogue and translating into Italian looks a bit odd. If you'd like to put something in the subtitles anyway, maybe you might consider converting Cyrillic to Latin and then italicize those texts, to give more information to the viewers.

Best,

Kang Seok Lee
expressisverbis
 
Kang Seok Lee
Kang Seok Lee
Coreia do sul
Local time: 22:27
Membro (2018)
Inglês para Coreano
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By different color font May 29, 2020

I agree with the idea/explanation of Mr.Sarper Aman.
Mostly, it is recommended to use/put the different color font to those sentences.
Regards
 
expressisverbis
expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 14:27
Membro (2015)
Inglês para Português
+ ...
Standards for subtitling may vary May 31, 2020

In those cases, I use Italic font according to the European Portuguese standards for subtitling.
We can also use quotation marks in certain circumstances.

[Edited at 2020-05-31 13:50 GMT]

Josephine Cassar
 


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