Thread:Zantam03/@comment-2600:8806:A000:1010:8CE1:CAAC:D2C8:45CE-20190308213911

Hey there, I was just wondering if you actually translate any of this stuff? http://the-scholars.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=9364&p=562165#p562165 I found this wonderful resource, but it's a real shame it's as difficult to translate as it is...So much information and bios from the SGZ still remain untranslated. It is certainly a difficult task, but it really is a shame. I want to learn to translate this stuff so bad - but even if you are fluent in modern chinese, you still will not understand Classic Chinese mostly. It certainly helps in translating it and is likely required as a base for translating it, but it unfortunately will not help alone. So to me, a native English speaker, it would almost be like learning 2 languages just to decipher 1 language and then to translate it back to English. I am almost willing to do such a thing as I am so passionate about this time period and frustrated at the incomplete SGZ English translation, but I believe that others who have been translating it now and other Han-Jin dynasty texts would have a much better feel for it and would be much more accurate and able to complete it much quicker (although "quick" in translating this stuff still is a long time), I only wish I had their knowledge ahead. But I suppose the only way to gain that knowledge is to do it. I'm contemplating learning Chinese just to do this. I already know German and currently learning Spanish, so my hope is that being polylingual should help out in this venture.

but anyways, main question to you is are you yourself able to translate any of these works? 