Hi,
I just registered here after a long search. Thought it would be the best place where I could find the help I urgently need.
The problem:
In a computer game,
Wurm, I have a neighbor that is from Japan. And for whatever reason I do not know she doesn't talk to me, there seems to have something happened out of my control that makes her mad at me.
I urgently need to resolve this.
Don't laugh, please. Gaming is meanwhile, for many people, even more important then the old television. And since it is an active engagement (in MMO's at least), requesting social skills and inter-lingual abilities, it also has an educational value. My wife and me are doing it to sharpen our English skills (we're no native speakers), and for the fun, for sure.
So now we have a social problem in this game. Our "counterpart" is Japanese, and any tries to establish a communication have failed yet. We have managed to talk (EMail) to a friend of her, but Google Translate (and others) have proven not to be able to do the job. They spit out unreadable garbage in the case of English - Japanese and vice verse, and often even tell offensive meanings.
This is why I came here now. Are there people here that would like to help me in my desperate tries to re-establish a working connection to this Japanese player? I don't talk Japanese at all. I'm German, and I have work enough to post in English ...
The situation is such that any mistake more might be disastrous. This way I explicitly call for native Japanese speakers, or for people that really well understand Japanese people, and their mindset.
It's not about a fight, it's about mediating/ translating. Between me, a German, and a Japanese player. My intention is to rebuild communication, to find out what made her this angry, to do what's ever possible to satisfy her, and maybe then, together, have a better time in this game.
I'd drop this here, as a challenge. There's no financial interest in it. Will somebody of you accept the job to mediate/ translate? It might be serious work, be warned. But it might earn you friends, too - me. And my Japanese counterpart, maybe.
I'd kindly ask now if somebody would be ready to help in this. I'm still trying to establish a communication channel to said player.
I appreciate your opinions. Can I expect help here, or am I this much outta reach that Id better go elsewhere?
Have a good time!