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🕑 Added 2018-09-08 07:00:21 +0000 UTC Do we have any Mandarin speakers handy?I have had an offer to host/translate C&Rsenal material on bilibili and was hoping I could find someone to review a demo episode to see how the translator does.
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For anyone curious, I've had a few of these. Chinese translators asking permission to re-host our content, translated, on bilibili. I tell them that it must be a "C&Rsenal" channel that we would control and they could edit. They always just stop talking at that point. I assume they just want free content for their own channels.
This week someone actually considered the offer. Which means now I have to really think what it would mean to have a Chinese C&Rsenal channel. Our mission is to preserve and spread firearms history, so of course we want to reach a new market. However, I don't want to ask someone to work for free for OUR channel instead of their own.
So that naturally leads to us considering paying for the translation efforts (our episodes are HUGE and nuanced to translate) and for interacting with the Chinese audience. But if we're paying, well we have to evaluate what we're getting. Hence the question.
Hopefully it can be done cheaply to reach a large audience. Regardless of any financial gain from a new market (kind of unlikely with China) we really do want to get everyone possible interested in the preservation and research of historical small arms.
Comments
Bruce Brodnax
I thought the Sullivan law only made pistols illegal in NYC? Not up to speed on NY gun laws: life behind the Granola Curtain is complex enough! ;-)
Mandarin is too main stream. now, Ancient Egyptian, Pashtun, Algerian Arabic, Croatian.... those I can help with
Milsurp Mike
About the only Mandarin I can help you out with is buy you some Mandarin oranges. Sorry.
Andrew MacDougall
I'd recommend translating one episode and starting a parallel chinese c&rsenal and associated patreon and having chinese fans fund the translation. "wanna see more of this? get on our patreon to translate more episodes!" sort of thing.
Jeffrey
Native Mandarin speaker, huge gun nerd. Would be happy to help out.
And, I have 60+ C&R rifles in my collection from pre WW1 to the Cold War (I have no pistol though 'cos I am in NY State. It's a pain in the neck to get the permit). I have tons of reference books in firearms and war history. And I visit museums and reenactment shows all the time. I got a certification in English/Chinese translation from the UK. Help O can help out.
I am an interpreter in English/Cantonese/Mandarin. I live in Long Island, NY. I am a big fan on milsurp and a history lover.
Ion
You should ask any of those Chinese to help out with a General Liu rifle episode ;)
I’m a Native Mandarin Speaker! Can’t do Cantonese, but Happy to help screen any translated mandarin episodes :)
Spartaner 251
CC(P)&Rsenal ? ;-)
<a href="http://www.artofwar-tw.org/bboard/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.artofwar-tw.org/bboard/</a> there is bunch of Sino-gunlover within this site that may can help you and may try to connect this guy by person <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/Airsoftotaku" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/user/Airsoftotaku</a> as a Mandarin speaker myself i can tell you if trying to posting your video in bilibili maybe a idea someone never try before and as the government is gun-ban party you may just rather regarding it as a subsidy but not a main financial source as a friendly reminder Modern history of China [1912 form the rise of republic of china to the "PRC"/post-1949 shit] is a literally political minefield IMO but a pretty interesting history of firearms as well if you can do a related episode i think lots of people may really love it
C&Rsenal
I have added an edit
Arturo Ceron
My wife is a native Mandarin speaker, knows Cantonese, and also reads both traditional and simplified Chinese ... oh, and she's a BIG fan of C&Rsenal =)
I'm not native or heritage, but I was a translator professionally for over a decade. My firearms vocab isn't complete, but I did work mostly in a military context so I'm not completely unfamiliar with the baseline words.
Not a native-level Mandarin speaker, but I do speak it.
