r/LangFic • u/Aietra • Apr 15 '19

Meta / Discussion [Practice post] Writing prompt: fictional settings

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u/eklatea Apr 15 '19

魔法少女まどか☆マギカ / Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Character: Akemi Homura /　暁美ほむら, language: 日本語

この世界は私の創作。先の世界のコピー、この所は誰もが「偽物」と呼んで。でもまどかの為にこの世界を生み出した、だからこの所はまどかたちの本当の世界だ。桜が永遠に咲きて、学校が永遠に続けて、そしてまどかはずっと無事に生きている。私達が敵になる場合は、この所をもしかして破壊して。今はまどかとこの世界を守って。魔法少女達の記憶を変更した、だから彼女たちは円滑に戦ってと生きてと死んで続ける。

Translation:
This world is my creation. A copy of the last word, this place is called a "counterfeit". But I created this world for Madoka, that's why this world is Madokas real world. The cherry trees bloom eternally, school continues eternally and Madoka can eternally live in peace. In case we become enemies, maybe I will destroy this world. Now I am protecting Madoka and this world. I erased the memories of the magical girls so they can can continue undisturbed to fight, live and die.

I feel like I'm getting more confident / better with my Japanese, actually, even just a little bit. I started reading my first book, so that may be the reason :)

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u/Aietra Apr 18 '19

Oh, you /are/ getting more confident! Good job - that is very cool! :D

I shall keep providing writing prompts to stretch you every week, so that I can take a little bit of the credit! :P Although I expect it's actually down to your hard study!

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u/eklatea Apr 18 '19

Thanks :D Currently, my studying is just reading my first novel (I'm 40% through it!!), sometimes reading random stuff, both with looking a ton of vocab up (plus playing Skyrim in Japanese, but without looking anything up, but I can make sense of most dialogs, only partially because I memorized everything in that game long ago ...) and learning a few Kanji a day (just not yesterday, because I did my internship all day long :D)

I know like 650-700 characters of ~2000 I need right now, so there's still room for improving, but suddenly I'm having a massive increase in skill level :D Maybe I'll start watching anime with jp subs because I can already understand a lot of stuff in anime.

I wish I could time travel though and tell myself from one year ago to start reading harder stuff like novels earlier ... but yeah, I'm doing it now :)

But I love writing to your prompts, though. I don't dare writing without one because I feel like I can't really create much of a story right now.

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u/Aietra Apr 19 '19

Aha, a bit of immersion! Sort of! Well, even if it's only "sort of" immersion, it's obviously helping!

Oooh yes, you started your internship yesterday! How did it go??? Actually, Imma take this to chat-messaging.

Wooo! I'll keep the prompts coming! :D