Help your fluency in a nifty way

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¡No! ¡Un pláta-no! Es un juego de palabras en español.
No! A banana! It's a Spanish pun.

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!פפפט
Pfft!

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Je sais pas la réponse à l'autre, mais j'ai besoin de partir maintenant.
I don't know the answer to the other one, but I have to leave now.

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Chuas air ais go dtí an proinnteach Indiach ar na gaobhair aniubh go rabhas á sheachaint. Tá dóchas agam ná beidh aiféala orm faoi.
Today I went back to the nearby Indian restaurant I've been avoiding. I hope I don't regret it.

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Astraios wrote:!تخم مرغ
Toxm-e morq!
An egg!


.یکی دیگه نوشتم: عجایب خلقتی دیدم درین دشت، سرشرا میبریدند زنده میگشت
Yek-i dige neveštam: ajâyeb xelqat-i didam dar-in dašt, sareš-râ miboridand zende migašt.
I wrote another one: what comes back to life when you cut off its head?
Zèf osi ?Eggs as well?

Monmon i tous, papa i tous, matant i tous, tonton i tous pa. Kosa i lé ?Mum touches, dad touches, aunt touches, oncle doesn't touch. What is it?

(I fo agard sak ma la ékri an kréol. néna pwin mo po konèt sèlman. You have to look at what I wrote in créole.You don't have to know any words though.)

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jmcd wrote:Zèf osi ?Eggs as well?
.درخت یا سبزی
Deraxt yâ sabzi.
A tree or a plant.

jmcd wrote:Monmon i tous, papa i tous, matant i tous, tonton i tous pa. Kosa i lé ?Mum touches, dad touches, aunt touches, oncle doesn't touch. What is it?

(I fo agard sak ma la ékri an kréol. néna pwin mo po konèt sèlman. You have to look at what I wrote in créole.You don't have to know any words though.)
!لبان
Labân!
Lips!

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Saminm !That's right!

Mi war pa satou. I don't get your one. :?

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.נו אם תחתוך את הראש (ענף או שניים) של צמח כלשהו זה לא יעצור אותו מצמיחה, רק אם תחתוך לו את השורשים הוא ימות
Nu im taxtóx et haróš (anáf o šnáyim) šel cémax kólšehu ze lo yaacór otó micmixá, rak im taxtóx lo et hašoraším hu yamút.
Well if you cut the head (a branch or two) off a plant that won't stop it from growing back, only if you cut off the roots it'll die.

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Ah! Je croyais que c'étais une indice. Oh! I thought it was a hint.

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یکی دیگر میدم. آن چیست که دوست و دشمن به یک چشم میبیند؟
Yek-i digar midam. Ân ci st ke dust-o došman be yek cešm mibinad?
I'll give you another. What looks on friend and foe without discrimination?

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Die Sonne? The sun?

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.آره! برام یه دیگه بده. از چیستانا خوشم میاد
Âre! Barâm ye dige bede. Az cistânâ xošam miâd.
Yes! Give me another. I like riddles.

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Вчера у меня есть экзамен об исторической живописи во Франции, то я не занимаюсь, а пишу здесь по-русски. Помогает. Я ничего не знаю о живописи, и не хочу знать. Ну знать и хочу, я хочу всё знать, а изучать на уроке нет. Хорошо, что после вчера уже не будет этого (если не потерплю неудачу).

Tomorrow I have an exam on history painting in France, so I'm not studying, but writing here in Russian. It helps. I don't know anything about painting and I don't want to. Well, I do want to know, I want to know everything, but I don't want to study it in class. At least after tomorrow I won't have it anymore (unless I fail).

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Astraios wrote:.آره! برام یه دیگه بده. از چیستانا خوشم میاد
Âre! Barâm ye dige bede. Az cistânâ xošam miâd.
Yes! Give me another. I like riddles.
Bikágí yóó' ajiyiiłhan dó́ó bit'ah jiłbéézh. Índa, bikágí jiyą́ dóó bit'ah yóó' ajiyiiłhan. Há'át'íísh baa yáshti'?
You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What am I talking about?

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Theta wrote:
Astraios wrote:.آره! برام یه دیگه بده. از چیستانا خوشم میاد
Âre! Barâm ye dige bede. Az cistânâ xošam miâd.
Yes! Give me another. I like riddles.
Bikágí yóó' ajiyiiłhan dó́ó bit'ah jiłbéézh. Índa, bikágí jiyą́ dóó bit'ah yóó' ajiyiiłhan. Há'át'íísh baa yáshti'?
You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What am I talking about?
cæpa!
An onion!


Ο ορανς τα ανα̨ριθομον ϝερρον εͱεν ανθροποτροφον.
Το̨ ανθροπς αυ̨τ εκψον επ αθο̨ οραναμο̨ϝον.
Θαιν. Θαιν. Θαιν. Θαιν. Θαιν. Θαιν. Θαιν.

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¡Hoy aprendí como teclear los signos de interrogación y exclamación a la comienza de una oración en español! No supe que mi telcado pudo hacer eso.

Today I learned how to type question marks and exclamation points at the beginning of a sentence in Spanish! I didn't know my keyboard could do that.

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Theta wrote:
Astraios wrote:.آره! برام یه دیگه بده. از چیستانا خوشم میاد
Âre! Barâm ye dige bede. Az cistânâ xošam miâd.
Yes! Give me another. I like riddles.
Bikágí yóó' ajiyiiłhan dó́ó bit'ah jiłbéézh. Índa, bikágí jiyą́ dóó bit'ah yóó' ajiyiiłhan. Há'át'íísh baa yáshti'?
You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What am I talking about?
Míš-eyá pšíŋ epȟá wačhíŋ éyaš Agléška Sápazila ékȟamapȟe.
I wanted to say onion too but Newt beat me there. >:|

Pressed Bunson wrote:¡Hoy aprendí como teclear los signos de interrogación y exclamación a la comienza de una oración en español! No supe que mi telcado pudo hacer eso.

Today I learned how to type question marks and exclamation points at the beginning of a sentence in Spanish! I didn't know my keyboard could do that.
Si tu faisais la même chose et choisissais le clavier espagnol, tu pourrais le faire comme ça aussi.
If you did the same thing and chose the Spanish keyboard, you could do it like that too.

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Hanáoodzíí'go bíhoneedlį́! Ndi éí doo nisin da. Niyah andeeshłįįł: Biwoo' t'óó'ahayóí, ndi ajiłhááshgo doo bínííghah da.
Interesting answer! But not the one I wanted. I'll give you a hint: It has a bunch of teeth, but it cannot bite.

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Hammasratas?
A gear?

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Theta wrote:Hanáoodzíí'go bíhoneedlį́! Ndi éí doo nisin da. Niyah andeeshłįįł: Biwoo' t'óó'ahayóí, ndi ajiłhááshgo doo bínííghah da.
Interesting answer! But not the one I wanted. I'll give you a hint: It has a bunch of teeth, but it cannot bite.
Wahúwapa!
An ear of corn!

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Ambrisio wrote:Hammasratas?
A gear?
Paykuna mikhunkichu?
Ṣé o jẹ wọ́n?
Őket eszel?
Do you eat those? :s
Astraios wrote:
Theta wrote:Hanáoodzíí'go bíhoneedlį́! Ndi éí doo nisin da. Niyah andeeshłįįł: Biwoo' t'óó'ahayóí, ndi ajiłhááshgo doo bínííghah da.
Interesting answer! But not the one I wanted. I'll give you a hint: It has a bunch of teeth, but it cannot bite.
Wahúwapa!
An ear of corn!
Ákót'é!
Correct! ^^

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Theta wrote:
Ambrisio wrote:Hammasratas?
A gear?
Paykuna mikhunkichu?
Ṣé o jẹ wọ́n?
Őket eszel?
Do you eat those? :s
Yulphíča šni kiŋ yakȟá he?
You mean they're not edible? :o

Theta wrote:Ákót'é!
Correct! ^^
.השיניים גילו לי את זה
Hašináyim gilú li et ze.
The teeth made me get it.

Míš heháŋtu.
My turn.

.دست دارد، پا ندارد، شکم پاره، نا ندارد
Dast dârad, pâ nadârad, šekam pâre, nâ nadârad.
It has hands, it doesn't have feet, its belly is torn, it has no strength.

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Astraios wrote:.دست دارد، پا ندارد، شکم پاره، نا ندارد
Dast dârad, pâ nadârad, šekam pâre, nâ nadârad.
It has hands, it doesn't have feet, its belly is torn, it has no strength.
dīmidium Promētheī?
Half of Prometheus?

(that is probably not the correct genitive form... stupid Greek nouns)


Ο ορανς τα ανα̨ριθομον ϝερρον εͱεν ανθροποτροφον.
Το̨ ανθροπς αυ̨τ εκψον επ αθο̨ οραναμο̨ϝον.
Θαιν. Θαιν. Θαιν. Θαιν. Θαιν. Θαιν. Θαιν.

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ObsequiousNewt wrote:
Astraios wrote:.دست دارد، پا ندارد، شکم پاره، نا ندارد
Dast dârad, pâ nadârad, šekam pâre, nâ nadârad.
It has hands, it doesn't have feet, its belly is torn, it has no strength.
dīmidium Promētheī?
Half of Prometheus?

(that is probably not the correct genitive form... stupid Greek nouns)
!نه
Na!
Nope!

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¡Hoy aprendí cómo teclear (/escribir / poner) los signos de interrogación y exclamación al comienzo de una oración en español! No sabía que mi teclado podía hacer eso.
no sabía = I didn't know, I had no knowledge about something [then I learnt]
no supe = I didn't know how to do something, I couldn't, I didn't succeed in doing it.

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