Applying to Translate (Updated)

It's very easy to apply to become a translator. Just make sure you have a good command of English and your own language. Please, think of it; a botched translation will make the developers of Black Mesa look bad, even if they had nothing to do with it.

Below there is a list of volunteers and the subforums available. Some of them are empty since they were requested but nothing was posted, so I am leaving them up just in case. I'll try to keep the list of members here updated, and I'm including the names of people who have been active here at some point in the past, even if they're gone now. Translators can help me clean this list up as progress is made. If you want to apply, please say so!



Albanian:
Members: veteran

Arabic:
Members: faio

Bosnian:
Members: Tolstoy

Brazilian Portugese (NOT TAKING ANY MORE VOLUNTEERS):
Moderator: AmericoOnlyDeagle
Members: lucasberti
                         JPreston
xTorch
xFrost
DaringHuman
LuísMatheus2
Jp007

Chinese:
Members: tenyuhuang

Czech:
Moderator: Gladosc
Members: MartinSvozil
Benetti32
Thrukicker

Danish:
Moderator: GARD
Members: KasperZ

Dutch:
Moderator: canterwood
Members: TehCryo
TheElderTrolls™
digilychee
Dragunov

Esperanto:
Members: Mauritz

European Portuguese:
Members: Crocki

Finnish:
None

French (NOT TAKING ANY MORE VOLUNTEERS):
Moderator: Alex156000
Members: M@yeulC
geek935
Ulrik
sarevok
StarMatt
Lerenwe
DeanR01
coolman756
Merrick Simms
Troufiniou

German:
Moderators: Stefan, MrChocodemon
Members: Luemmel
               striker

Greek:
Members: ShadowNate

Hebrew:
Members: Yuval
Zerk13

Hungarian:
u]Members[/u]: tsl16b

Italian (NOT TAKING ANY MORE VOLUNTEERS):
Members: Oktober
Alixey
Bloodyskull
luxaeterna101
Peppigno
Roby65
isca
Tamaster
Gnorri

Japanese:
u]Members[/u]: nipponjin

Korean:
Moderator: rurulalajo, AirRice
Members: greatflyer

Norwegian:
Moderator: VidaNor, Kepler82
Members: jerry

Polish:
Moderator: Keresh
Members: Lamb3rt
uzikus
Mr0Buggy
Chillington

Romanian:
Moderator: ColonelFear, scrab
Members: FlorinMarius

Russian (NOT TAKING ANY MORE VOLUNTEERS):
Moderator: Red_Man
Members: Igor_Rus
Horrace,
ChrisBlackJ
MRFreeman
Fasendas
Snaker

Spanish:
Moderator: Jokerine

Swedish:
Members: greyneon
xaeleep


Turkish:
Moderator: qabRieL
Members: cuthbert

Hello, can you take a picture from in-game? To show subtitles.
(Sorry for my english, )

Here is a picture of the in-game subtitles. They show different colors so you can know who's talking

Hey, can I help in the translation? I'm brazilian. I just need to finish the game first to have a better ideia to translate. Thanks.
Obs: I know, that I'm asking this a lot, but is because I really want to help and I'm not sure of what topic is the official one (Is this topic the official?).

Oh, you sure can! Yup, this is the right one. Portuguese would be great! You can finish the game first, of course, and once you're ready, let me know

Thanks ;D
Soon as the game release I will download it and finish. But downloading is the worst part XP. I will download that demo script in the forum to have a basic idea. The game have about to 6GB, 5GB? That large would take up to 4 days of downloading. Do you know if the Black Mesa Team after the launching will continue to launch patchs and updates and if have anyone in the forum that want to translate to PT-BR too? I'm just having some trouble with my account XP. Thanks man ;D

I'm quite sure that they'll release patches if there are problems with the mod, yeah. About other people translating, I guess, I'm not sure though - you know that translating is a lot of work, so finding partners is difficult Good luck though

Hey guys, I'm translating to Brazilian Portuguese, and already submitted the first 4 parts of the game translated.
Can't wait for this to come out...HL1 was a fantastic game, and playing it with new graphics and physics will be outstanding!

Hi guys, I'll see what I can do to help with Chinese translation. Just dunno if any of y'all have asian language support installed on your computers and will be able to see the fruits of my labor

Good luck with it! I'm not sure if I have them installed... Guess I'll see when you start posting your translations, haha

Dou you have "Erk"s e-mail or something?
And, bmtranslate.forumsplace.com is close. Can't I enter the bmtranslate.forumsplace.com again? There was very useful threads on bmtranslate.forumsplace.com.

Sorry for my bad English

I'm afraid I don't have Erk's email, sorry And yeah, the place is closed. We gave a warning that it would shut down so people would save their progress, but it seems like some people didn't. We're trying to rebuild what we'd done there

Hi, could i join translation? I am natively norwegian, so i can translate to norwegian

Sure you can, have fun!

Hey!

I would like to join the norwegian translate group.
... All i have to say, apparantly.

You can join, surely! Go on!

I would like to create a Korean translation. I am pretty sure I can find some people to help me.


Scientist: "I apologize, Mr Freeman, but I couldn't risk opening that door until I was sure you'd scoured the area. This is the last entrance to the Lambda complex. Every other has been sealed off to contain the invasion. When we realized that you might actually make it here, we drew straws to see who should stay behind to let you through. Obviously, I drew the short one. My colleagues are waiting at the tip of the Lambda reactor. Waiting for you, I mean. The reactor is shut down right now, but you can activate it on your way up. You'll have to flood the core anyway to get into the teleportation labs. You're not authorized to know about those, but I can see you already know a great deal more than any one man is supposed to."


과학자: 죄송하지만 프리맨 박사님, 저는 당신이 이 구역을 확보할 때까지 이 문을 열수 없었습니다. 이 문은 람다 구역으로 가는 마지막 문입니다. 다른 문들은 침략을 막기 위해 닫혔습니다. 저희가 당신이 여기에 진짜로 올수 있다는걸 알았을때, 우리는 누가 남아서 문을 열어줄 것인지 제비를 뽑았습니다. 볼수잇듯이, 제가 당첨되었죠. 제 동료들은 람다 원자로의 끝에 기다리고 있습니다. 당신을 말입니다. 원자로는 지금 꺼져있지만, 올라가면서 다시 킬수 있을겁니다. 어차피 텔레포테이션 연구실에 가기 위해서는 코어를 (If a better context was provided, I would have used some other word) 물로 채워야 할겁니다. 당신은 이런 것들을 알면 안돼지만, 당신은 아무 한 사람이 알아야 될 것보다 훨신 더 많이 알고 있는것 같군요.

Hey,
I would like to apply for the German translation.
From what It seems there are already quite some people in that team but there doesn't seem to be any post in the German Language section of the forum. If you know if they have grouped together somewhere else let me know, otherwise I will try to get the translation done.

I'm very comfortable with both languages, since German is my mother language and I use English quite a lot on a daily basis as well.

Hi, I'm leaving this here for better times, probably the forum will come to life as soon as the mod is released.
I see there is no italian subforum, no one has applied for italian translation.
If you plan to add this language I'm up for the challenge.

here's the translation:
Scienziato: "Ti porgo le mie scuse Sig. Freeman, ma non potevo certo rischiare di aprire quella porta finché non fossi stato certo che tu avessi ripulito l'area. Questa è l'ultima entrata rimasta per il complesso Lambda. Tutte le altre sono state sigillate per contenere l'invasione. Quando ci siamo resi conto che ce l'avresti potuta fare ad arrivare fin qui, abbiamo sorteggiato a chi sarebbe rimasto indietro per farti entrare. Ovviamente sono stato estratto io(I had to change this one a bit because of the language differences.). I miei colleghi stanno aspettando alla fine del reattore lambda. Aspettando te, intendo. In questo momento il reattore è spento, ma puoi attivarlo durante il tuo percorso. In ogni caso dovrai allagare il nocciolo per raggiungere i laboratori di teletrasporto. Non sei autorizzato a sapere di quelli, Ma posso ben notare che sei a conoscenza di una quantità di informazioni di gran lunga superiore a quella che un uomo dovrebbe sapere."


Thank you,
Joz

I'm sorry, but i joined BMI and helped in the german translation section without asking if i may.
It was more like minor tweaking and helping stefan.

But now that i've seen that others asked first, I'll like to ask afterwards.
I hope you aren't angry

I want to join the Portuguese Group translation, I'm Brazilian, and there is a lot of difference words between Portugal and Brazil, so I'm going to correct some differences in the translation.

Thank you all guys! Sorry I was away for so long... Had trouble with my password, pretty silly, really.

I'll add Korean and Italian subforums now, feel free to get in there!

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Have fun!

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