Anne's Anytime Andante Wiki

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Transcripts and Translations of Anne's Anytime Andante
This wiki should be an archive of transcripts and possibly translations of the 杏のAnytime Andante podcast.

I attempted to do this in blog format but I realized that I don't really have the time or energy to do all of the transcripts, much less translations, myself. I've actually kind of lost interest in the project so I decided to transfer things here just in case anyone else is interested in continuing it. What follows are my recommendations but, of course, if you decide to help with the project you can do things the way you like.

This isn't necessarily an Anne Watanabe wiki. I'd recommend not posting general information about her although a profile page might be appropriate. It also might be a good idea to create content about or link to things that she speaks about on the show. For example, information about Yuzusco from Episode 3 might be interesting.

The transcripts should be the most important part. To be a good resource for students of Japanese, I think the transcripts should be as accurate as possible. In order to become better at transcribing it might be good to become more familiar with linguistical concepts such as categorical perception. Generally, I tried to only include what Anne actually said and not what I think she might have meant to say. It's quite common for people to make mistakes when they speak and I think the transcripts should contain those mistakes. If Anne drifts off as she speaks and her speech becomes unintelligible, it would be best to insert【不明】(or whatever the most appropriate Japanese equivalent of unintelligible is) and not try to guess what you think Anne probably said. That information could go in a study notes section or page that can accompany the episode.

I usually do a very rough and quick transcription, not worrying at all about accuracy just to get through the episode as quickly as possible. I use bold and full width parenthesis to surround any （テキスト）, kanji, or vocabulary that I'm not sure about. If I can't quite hear what's being said I'll put a bold batsu （✕）. This will point out to others that the transcription is in need of attention. Once the rough transcript is done, I go back and try to fix things and research any kanji or words as necessary. Episode 10 is currently in rough form with the final 30 seconds still waiting to be transcribed. That should make it easy for someone to come in and quickly complete a page. I also created a copy of the rough transcript that can remain as an example if necessary.

I'd recommend not transcribing noises such as 「あの」and「えっと」. Anne says these a lot. I originally tried to transcribe them but it was driving me crazy and cluttering up the text. I've only been inserting these thinking noises if they seem to part of a quote Anne relates from another person or a quote of her own thoughts.

Regarding the use of kanji versus kana, I try to use whatever seems most common. Google Japan searches can be helpful in this regard. If you aren't sure or there doesn't seem to be a clearly more popular choice, I generally use katakana for onomatopoeia and loan words and kanji for everything else as this may make it easier for students to research unknown vocabulary. If you come across a word that you are sure is more commonly written in kana, you should change it to hiragana.

Regarding translations, I'm not sure what to do about them. The ones that I've done so far aren't very good and they're quite colloquial. I didn't necessarily translate everything Anne said but rather thought about how a native speaker might naturally convey similar information. In order for them to be useful for study, I think they need to be a bit more literal. For now, I'll input the work that I've already done just as an example.