Help your fluency in a nifty way

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Quieres ver mi culito para verificar?
Wanna see my bum to make sure?

Qwynegold wrote:友達のえをかきたいが、やっぱり難しすぎる。ひどくなるかも。 :(
Tomodachi no e wo kakitai ga, yappari muzukashisugiru. Hidoku naru kamo. :(
I wanted to draw a picture of my friend, but it's too difficult after all. It may turn awful. :(
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Astraios wrote:Wanna see my bum to make sure?
Nein danke. Die Forstellung allein war ganz reichend :)
No thanks. The vision allone was quite enough :)


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.אני בטוח
I bet it was. ;)

Imralu wrote:Dann gab es einen richtig schönen Sonnenuntergang. Ich habe ein Bild davon gemacht und es dem Typen geschickt, mit dem ich mich treffe. Wir hatten heute gar nicht gechattet. Genau zur gleichen Zeit habe ich von ihm auch ein Bild bekommen - auch vom Sonnenuntergang! Wir haben uns gleichzeitig den Sonnenuntergang geschickt.
Then there was a really beautiful sunset. I took a picture of it and sent it to the guy I'm seeing. We hadn't chatted at all today. At exactly the same time, I received a picture from him too - also of the sunset! We both simultaneously sent each other the sunset.
Das ist süss!
That's cute!

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今日終日くしゃみしてたので、仕事に埃のアレルギーが引いたかもしれない。面倒くさいわ。
Today I've been sneezing all day... I think I got an allergy to dust at work. So annoying.

でも昨日はね、ホモフォビアのバカやろうの同居人がついに空けたので、今日は自分の家にくつろげるようになる感じ。
But yesterday, homophobic cuntbag housemate finally moved out, so I (and the others) feel like I (we) can actually relax in my (our) own home.

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Astraios wrote:
Qwynegold wrote:友達のえをかきたいが、やっぱり難しすぎる。ひどくなるかも。 :(
Tomodachi no e wo kakitai ga, yappari muzukashisugiru. Hidoku naru kamo. :(
I wanted to draw a picture of my friend, but it's too difficult after all. It may turn awful. :(
Ganbatte ne.
You can do it. :)
どうも。今はえんぴつのスケッチだけだ。きっちり墨して彩るともっと良くなるかも。構図も磨こうなあ。でもくさくなっちゃったら、だれにも見せない。
Dōmo. Ima wa empitsu no suketchi dake da. Kitchiri sumi shite irodoru to motto yoku naru kamo. Kōzu mo migakō naa. Demo kusaku natchattara, dare ni mo misenai.
Thanks. It's only a pencil sketch so far. When I have inked it for real and colored, maybe it will be better. I'll also improve on the composition. But if it turns out crappy I'm not gonna show it to anyone.
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Lakȟótiyapi uŋspémič'ičhiyiŋ kte ȟčiŋ éyaš owáyawa él Arab-iyápi uŋspémič'ičhiyiŋ kta héčha. Uŋgnáš nuphíŋ ób ečhámuŋ owákihi kta he?
I want to learn Lakota, but I have to learn Arabic for school. Could I possibly do both???

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Qwynegold wrote:
Astraios wrote:
Qwynegold wrote:友達のえをかきたいが、やっぱり難しすぎる。ひどくなるかも。 :(
Tomodachi no e wo kakitai ga, yappari muzukashisugiru. Hidoku naru kamo. :(
I wanted to draw a picture of my friend, but it's too difficult after all. It may turn awful. :(
Ganbatte ne.
You can do it. :)
どうも。今はえんぴつのスケッチだけだ。マジで墨して彩るともっと良くなるかも。構図も磨こうなあ。でもくさくなっちゃったら、だれにも見せない。
Dōmo. Ima wa empitsu no suketchi dake da. Maji de sumi shite irodoru to motto yoku naru kamo. Kōzu mo migakō naa. Demo kusaku natchattara, dare ni mo misenai.
Thanks. It's only a pencil sketch so far. When I have inked it for real and colored, maybe it will be better. I'll also improve on the composition. But if it turns out crappy I'm not gonna show it to anyone.
マジで means "really", but more in the sense of "seriously?!" or "omg". here it makes no sense...

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Theta wrote:Lakȟótiyapi uŋspémič'ičhiyiŋ kte ȟčiŋ éyaš owáyawa él Arab-iyápi uŋspémič'ičhiyiŋ kta héčha. Uŋgnáš nuphíŋ ób ečhámuŋ owákihi kta he?
I want to learn Lakota, but I have to learn Arabic for school. Could I possibly do both???
Míin u pajtal a méentik le ka'a p'éelo'. Pajachaji' in kanik tibetano t'aan kali'ikil in kanik americano k'ab t'aan.

I believe you can do both. I was able to study Tibetan while learning ASL.
I did have a bizarrely similar (to the original poster's) accident about four years ago, in which I slipped over a cookie and somehow twisted my ankle so far that it broke
What kind of cookie?
Aeetlrcreejl > Kicgan Vekei > me /ne.ses.tso.sats/

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Vandag, al wat ek gedoen het, is my gesig geskeer. Ek's so lui, maar ek's baie moeg vandag en dit reën dus dit is lekker om in te bly.
Today all I did was shave my face. I'm so lazy, but I'm really tired today and it's raining so it's nice to stay in.
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Theta wrote:Lakȟótiyapi uŋspémič'ičhiyiŋ kte ȟčiŋ éyaš owáyawa él Arab-iyápi uŋspémič'ičhiyiŋ kta héčha. Uŋgnáš nuphíŋ ób ečhámuŋ owákihi kta he?
I want to learn Lakota, but I have to learn Arabic for school. Could I possibly do both???
Háŋ!
Yes! :)

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Íŋše Lakȟótiyapi-čhekpá waŋží yačhíŋ čha hé ehé ló.
You're only saying that because you want a Lakota buddy.

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finlay wrote:マジで means "really", but more in the sense of "seriously?!" or "omg". here it makes no sense...
Oh wait! Changes...
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Nannalu wrote:Vandag, al wat ek gedoen het, is my gesig geskeer. Ek's so lui, maar ek's baie moeg vandag en dit reën dus dit is lekker om in te bly.
Today all I did was shave my face. I'm so lazy, but I'm really tired today and it's raining so it's nice to stay in.
É legal. Muitas vezes nem isso faço xD.
It's all right... sometimes I don't even do that xD.

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Nannalu wrote:Vandag, al wat ek gedoen het, is my gesig geskeer. Ek's so lui, maar ek's baie moeg vandag en dit reën dus dit is lekker om in te bly.
Wan ich arbeitsscheu bin, rasiere ich mich bestimmt niemals.
When I'm lazy, I definitely don't shave at all


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jal wrote:Wenn ich arbeitsscheu bin, rasiere ich mich bestimmt niemals.
Ich rasier mich nicht, wenn ich schlecht gelaunt bin. Auf diese Weise fungiert meine Bartstoppeln als Warnzeichen.
I don't shave when I'm in a bad mood. That way my stubble functions as a warning sign.

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Isso é fixe. Funciona?
That's neat. Does it work?

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Meine Kollegen sind leider nicht so aufmerksam.
Níl mo chomhleacaithe den leithéid de ghrinneas ann.
My coworkers aren't that observant, sadly.

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Roedd yr wythnos yma yn dda iawn. Roedd y gwaith yn gyffrous a cynhyrchiol. Roedd fy nosbarth arwyddiaith yn dda a wnes i ddysgu llawer o pethau newydd, a wnes i ddysgu cafodd y nosbarth lefel 2 ei gadarnhau e. Ddoe, wnes i fynd nofio anwar gyda ffrindiau yng Nghymru a roedd hi’n braf. Dw i’n mwynhau fy MA eto a dw i wedi ymgeisio PGCE!

This week has been really good. Work has been exciting and productive. My BSL class was good and I learnt a lot of new things, and I've found out the L2 course has been confirmed. Yesterday, I went wild swimming with friends in Wales and that was lovely. I'm enjoying my MA again, and I've applied for a PGCE!

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しまった!今ヘッドフォンがこわれた。このヘッドバンドが左のフォンからもげたので、もう頭に止まっていない。
Shimatta! Ima heddofon ga kowareta. Kono heddobando ga hidari no fon kara mogeta node, mō atama ni tomatte inai.
Damn! My headphones just broke. This headband came off from the left phone, so now it won't stay on my head.
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Qwynegold wrote:しまった!今ヘッドフォンがこわれた。このヘッドバンドが左のフォンからもげたので、もう頭に止まっていない。
Shimatta! Ima heddofon ga kowareta. Kono heddobando ga hidari no fon kara mogeta node, mō atama ni tomatte inai.
Damn! My headphones just broke. This headband came off from the left phone, so now it won't stay on my head.
Is daar enige manier dat jy dit kan regmaak?
Is there any way you can fix it?
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Haynt bin ikh geforn kin Liverpul zikh mitem khaver tsu trefn mit zayn bruder. Mir hobn reyshis ale dray tsuzamengesudet in a khinezishn misode (batamt) un kavelekh getrunken in an italienishn kavehoyz, vos hot undz zeyer zate gemakht. Ober az mir zenen lesof aroys fun restoran hobn gezet dos az in droysn geyt es a shreklekher mabl, vos tshept zikh mit undz biz der bruder vil shoyn aheym, ober ototo zeen mir dos az in der gas tsvishn dimsam un kave s'iz do a nayer zipdrot far di tayorim vos hobn tsu fil gelt (vos m' zipt take arum af im glaykh vi geyt es nisht kin huragan), mit a nebekh vos afn halbn veg zayn zip iz tsu drot tsugeklept un vos kegn im lakht ot di gantse gas. To shteyen mir akegntsulakhn, un az der nebekh iz shoyn fun drot lesof arop iz der bruder avek un mitem khaver zenen mir arayn in an andern kaveheyzl-bar nokh a kave tsu trinken mit milyoners shortbred un mittsukvetshn oysem gantsn oylem, der iker oys regn, oys dos az hobn zey nisht ot der ziser vayn vos in Malaga getrunken, un oys a maker zayner vos iz a groyser nudnik. A keyf iz dos geven. Shpeter az ikh bin shoyn tsurik tsu mayn eygn shtot tsugekumen der ban iz geven gevorn farhaltet a gantse eyne minut azoy bin ikh aroys shpet eyne minut, ober di mame vos iz oykh a groyse nudnitse vartet zi geduldik? Zi hot mir shoyn gebetn bam modiin durkh ramkol. Af aza fashle darf ikh itst goyver zayn, oysh.

Today I travelled to Liverpool to meet my friend and his brother. First of all the three of us had a meal in a Chinese restaurant (yummy) and drank coffees in an Italian coffeehouse, which made us very full. But when we finally went out of the restaurant we saw that outside it was raining a terrible deluge, which irritated us until the brother wanted to go home already, but right then we saw that in the street between the dimsum and the coffee there's a new zipwire for the tourists who have too much money (which people were actually zipping about on as if there wasn't a hurricane), with a poor guy whose zip got stuck halfway across and who the whole street was laughing at him. So we stopped to laugh at him, and when the guy got down finally from the wire the brother left and I went with the friend into another coffeehouse-bar to drink another coffee with millionaire's shortbread and to bitch about the whole world, in particular about the rain, the fact that they don't have the sweet wine we had in Malaga, and an acquaintance of his who's a total pest. That was fun. Later when I'd come back already to my own town the train had been delayed by a whole one minute so I got off one minute late, but my mother who is also a total pest was she waiting patiently? She'd already asked for me at the information desk over the loudspeaker. Now I have to deal with such an embarassing experience, oof.

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Nannalu wrote:
Qwynegold wrote:しまった!今ヘッドフォンがこわれた。このヘッドバンドが左のフォンからもげたので、もう頭に止まっていない。
Shimatta! Ima heddofon ga kowareta. Kono heddobando ga hidari no fon kara mogeta node, mō atama ni tomatte inai.
Damn! My headphones just broke. This headband came off from the left phone, so now it won't stay on my head.
Is daar enige manier dat jy dit kan regmaak?
Is there any way you can fix it?
今はワイアーを使っているが、いつ離れる?テープは全くぜんぜん勤まらなかった、絶対。
Ima wa waiaa wo tsukatte iru ga, itsu hanareru? Teepu wa mattaku zenzen tsutomaranakatta, zettai.
Now I'm using metal wire, but when will it get loose again. Tape would absolutely, completely not work at all.
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Astraios wrote:Today I travelled to Liverpool to meet my friend and his brother. First of all the three of us had a meal in a Chinese restaurant (yummy) and drank coffees in an Italian coffeehouse, which made us very full.

私はきのうチャットの友達に初めて会った。アジアバイキングを食べた。私はただちょっと食べたのに、全く一杯になっちゃった。 :( このフィンランド人の友達はスェーデンでボーイフレンドがいる。私は色々で゛楽しい゛事をしたと言ってもらったが、細部をもらわなかった。 :(
Watashi wa kinō chatto no tomodachi ni hajimete atta. Ajiabaikingu wo tabeta. Watashi wa tada chotto tabeta no ni, mattaku ippai ni natchatta. :( Kono Finrando-jin no tomodachi wa Sueeden de bōifurendo ga iru. Watashi wa iroirode "tanoshii" koto wo shita to itte moratta ga, saibu wo morawanakatta. :(
I met a chat friend for the first time yesterday. We ate Asian buffet. I only ate a little, yet I became completely full. :( This Finnish friend of mine has a boyfriend in Sweden. I had him tell me that they did all kinds of "fun" things, but he wouldn't give me any details. :(

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A pè "ziplines" ní wọ́n níbi tí mo ti wá. A jókóò tàbí a dúró ní pẹpẹ kékeré tí ó yọ̀ pẹ̀lú okùn.
They're called "ziplines" where I come from. You sit or stand on a little platform that slides down a cable.

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Sahidic Coptic
ḾΠOOϒ AÏЄI ЄΠIAϨϢϢHN.
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ADV PREVB<PFT.DEF>1SG=go PRP=DEF.M.SG=field.tree
Today I went to the woods.

AIϨЄ ŃϨЄNAλѠOϒЄ ŃCѠϢЄ.
[ʔɛj.he ʔә̃n.hẽ.nɑ.lɔ:.wә ʔә̃n.sɔ:.ʃә]
PREVB<PFT.DEF>1SG=find ACC-INDEF.PL=grape.bunch GEN-meadow
I found some wild grapes.

ŃTAϒϢAϢI AN!
[ʔә̃n.tɑw.ʃɑ.ʃi ʔɑ̃n]
NEG.PFT.DEF.3PL=be.bitter NEG
They weren’t bitter!

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