#writingchallengejuly

[cyberstudious]

july target language writing challenge: day 01/31

today’s task was to translate the beginning of your favorite book! I translated the first few paragraphs of The Dream Thieves (or Los Saqueadores de Sueños) by Maggie Stiefvater into spanish! I’ve barely used spanish since school ended so this was v fun. books are always a challenge because they use so many different tenses all at once! (those reflexives were a bit of a struggle lol)

[studynlangs]

July Target Language Writing Challenge

Day 1: Translate the first few sentences of your favourite book into your language 

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

MORT ET CHOCOLAT

Avant tout lescoleurs. Ensuite leshumains. Cela est normalement comment jevoisleschoses. Ou aumoins, comment j’essaye.

Voici un petit fait: vous allez mourir.

Je tente honnêtement d’être gai sur ce sujet entier, mais la plupart de personnes se retrouve entravé en croyant moi, malgré mes protestations. S’il vous plaît, faites confiance en moi. Je peut très certainement être gai. Je peut être aimable. Agréable. Affable. Et ceux-ci sont seulement les As. Simplement ne me demandez pas d’être sympathique. Sympathique n’a rien à voir avec moi.

i’m nowhere near ready to even form sentences in my other target languages.

please feel free to correct my mistakes :D 

[liinglang]

７月４日

Day 4: List 3-5 facts about your country (or your family’s country of origin).

- アメリカは５０州があります。 - 大統領はトランプです。 - 今日（７月４日）はアメリカの独立の日です。

[langscollector]

July writing challenge ITALIAN - Day 11

11. What is one goal you hope to achieve by the end of this month?

Da luglio è finito in una settimana, e per questo scopo mi serverà un po’ più di tempo, mi riferirò ad Agosto. Fino alla fine di Agosto, vorrei stare capace di fare una verticale da sola, senza usare il muro.

[doitforthek-s]

July Target Language Writing Challenge (7/31): Describe your favourite summer outfit

Target Language 1: Mandarin

夏天的时候，我最喜欢穿的配备是一个Romper跟高跟鞋。很随便，还很漂漂亮亮。因为我平时穿T恤和短裤，这还是我最好看的配备。我的Romper是黑色，还有浅紫色的花。

Target Language 2: Japanese

夏の時に、私の一番好きな服装はロンパーとかかとの靴。カジュアルでかわいい。いつもTシャツとショーツを着るから、この服装は私の一番綺麗な服装だ。私のロンパーは黒くて紫花があるんだ。

Translation:

The outfit I like wearing most during summer is a romper with heels. It is casual, but also pretty. Since I usually wear t-shirts and shorts, it is also my nicest summer outfit. The romper is black with light purple flowers.

[studyingsenseless]

Target Language Writing Challenge July

Although I'm taking a hiatus, I'm currently putting together the writing challenge for July. If you have any ideas for prompts or themes, please let me know!!

[language-aholic]

July Writing Challenge

Day 1: Translate the first few sentences of your favorite book into your target language

English: "Once upon a time, before the whole world changed, it was possible to run away from home, disguise who you were, and fit into polite society. The children’s mother had done exactly that."

Swedish: "Det var en gång, innan hela världen förändrades, var det möjligt att springa hemifrån, dölja vem du var och passa in i artiga samhället. Barnens mor hade gjort exakt det."

(The Rules Of Magic by Alice Hoffman)

[pearls-langs]

1st July: Translate the first few sentences of your favourite book

A Series of Unfortunate Events (The Bad Beginning) by Lemony Snicket

“If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. This is because not very many happy things happened in the lives of the three Baudelaire youngsters. Violet, Sunny and Klaus were intelligent children, and they were charming, and resourceful, and had pleasant facial features, but they were extremely unlucky, and most everything that happened to them was rife with misfortune, misery, and despair. I'm sorry to tell you this, but that is how the story goes.”

In Spanish: Si estás interesado en historias con finales felices, estarías mejor leyendo otro libro. En este libro, no solamente hay ningún final feliz, no hay feliz comienzo y muy pocas cosas felices en el medio. Eso es porque no eran muchas cosas felices en las vidas de los tres niños Baudelaire. Violet, Sunny y Klaus eran niños inteligentes, y eran encantadoros y inventivos, y tenían la físonomia agradable, pero eran extremadamente desafortunado, y la mayoría de lo qué pasó a ellos era llena de desgracia, miseria y desesperación. Lo siento de te contarlo, pero eso es como va la historia.

[magnoliasi]

july target language writing challenge - days 16, 17, 18 and 19

Day 16: Briefly describe some of your personality traits.

Je suis très passionnée par tout ce que je fais.

Je suis trop sensible et émotive.

Il n'est pas difficile de me mettre en colère (c'est presque dans ma nature d'être impatiente, mon père l'est aussi)

Je suis spontanée (parfois je dis ce que je pense sans bien réfléchir)

Day 17: What's one nice thing that you've done for someone else recently?

La semaine dernière, c'était l'anniversaire de mon prof de théorie littéraire. Je lui ai donné un cadeau, un "pão de mel" (?? jsais pas comment dire ça en français, désolée). Il a été si content !

Day 18: Why do you want to learn the language you are studying?

En réalité, je voulais apprendre l'espagnol, mais j'ai obtenu une réduction dans le cours de francês et voilà, c'est comme ça que j'ai commencé à étudier cette langue. Mais au fil du temps j'ai remarqué que j'aime vraiment étudier des langues étrangères. Je parlais déjà l'anglais, mais c'était grâce au français que j'ai découvert ma passion ! Avant ça, je n'avais jamais trouvé quelque chose dans lequel j'excellais. Pour moi, c'est ça la meilleure sensation du monde, trouver quelque chose qu'on aime et remarquer qu'en fait on est doué pour ça ! 😊

Day 19: List 3 useful phrases in your language.

Je suis allergique aux...

Je ne voulais pas être ici, j'aurais dû rester au lit.

Je ne me sens pas très bien, je veux être un peu seul(e)/je veux un câlin.

[hejariel]

July Writing Challenge Day 1: Translate the first few sentences of your favorite book into your language.

Mit navn er Kathy H. Jeg er 31 år gammel, og jeg har været en plejer i over 11 år. Jeg ved at det lyder som lang nok tid, men de vil faktisk gerne have at jeg forsætter endnu otte måneder, indtil slutningen af det her år. Så vil det være næsten præcis 12 år. Nå jeg ved, at være en plejer så lang tid ikke er nødvendigvis fordi de synes, at jeg er fantastisk til mit job. Der er nogle virkelige gode plejer, der måtte stoppe efter bare to eller tre år. Og jeg kan tænke på mindst én plejer, der arbejdede i hele 14 år, selvom hun var totalt uduelig. Så jeg prøver ikke at prale. Men jeg ved godt, at de har været glade for mit arbejde, og det har jeg også stort set været. Mine donerer har altid haft det meget bedre end forventet. Deres sygdomsforløb har været imponerede, og stort set ingen af dem har været klassificeret som “oprørte,” selv før deres fjerde donation. Okay, måske praler jeg lidt. Men det betyder meget for mig, at gøre mit arbejde godt, især når mine donerer kan forblive “rolige.” Jeg har udviklet en slags instinkt omkring donerer. Jeg ved godt, hvornår jeg skal blive omkring og trøste dem, hvornår jeg skal lade dem være; hvornår jeg skal lytte til alt de har på hjertet, og hvornår jeg bare skal trække på skulderen og fortælle dem at de skal stoppe.

Uddrag fra Slip Mig Aldrig af Kazuo Ishiguro

My name is Kathy H. I’m thirty-one years old, and I’ve been a carer now for over eleven years. That sounds long enough, I know, but actually they want me to go on for another eight months, until the end of this year. That’ll make it almost exactly twelve years. Now I know my being a carer so long isn’t necessarily because they think I’m fantastic at what I do. There are some really good carers who’ve been told to stop after just two or three years. And I can think of one carer at least who went on for all of fourteen years despite being a complete waste of space. So I’m not trying to boast. But then I do know for a fact they’ve been pleased with my work, and by and large, I have too. My donors have always tended to do much better than expected. Their recovery times have been impressive, and hardly any of them have been classified as “agitated,” even before fourth donation. Okay, maybe I am boasting now. But it means a lot to me, being able to do my work well, especially that bit about my donors staying “calm.” I’ve developed a kind of instinct around donors. I know when to hang around and comfort them, when to leave them to themselves; when to listen to everything they have to say, and when just to shrug and tell them to snap out of it. 


Excerpt from Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

[leahs-langblr]

Is it too late to start the target writing challenge?

I haven’t had much time this past week because I’ve been on vacation, but now that I’m back I’d like to try the July target language writing challenge

Day 1: Translate the first few sentences of your favorite book into your language.

Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, translated to English by Alymer Maude

"Pues, príncipe, así Genoa y Lucca están ahora solo propiedades familiares de las Buonaparte.  Pero te advierto, si no me dices que este significa guerra, si todavía intentas defender las infamias y los horrors perpetrado por eso Anticristo- realmente creo que él es Anticristo- tendré nunca más que ver contigo y ya no serás mi amigo, ya no mi 'esclavo fiel' como te llamas!  ¿Pero cómo estás?  Veo que te he asustado- siéntate y dime todas las noticias."

‘Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don’t tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist - I really believe he is Antichrist - I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my ‘faithful slave,’ as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see I have frightened you - sit down and tell me all the news.’ 

If you happen to notice any mistakes, please let me know! It would be really helpful😊

[cyberstudious]

july target language writing challenge - day 05/31

today’s challenge has resulted in a summer playlist with the song titles translated into spanish!

[studynlangs]

July Target Language Writing Challenge

Day 2: If you could live in any era (i.e. the roaring ‘20s), what would it be and why?

Honnêtement j'aime vivre à cette époque pour beaucoup de raisons mais si je dois choisir je pense que je choisirai les années 80 parce que j'aime la musique et les esthétiques (quelquefois). Et plus tard je peux vivre pendant les années 90.

[jenaicomprispas]

« La terreur, que ne terminerait pas pour les prochaines vingt-huit ans - si elle termine toujours - commencerait avec une bateau fait d’une feuille d’un journal flottant vers le bas d’une gouttière gonflée par la pluie. »

Ça écrit par Stephen King

[tari-elenion]

July Writing Challenge

Day 10: How will you improve as a student next year?

来年は。。。どうでしょうね。毎週数回単語リストを作ったらどうですか？でも単語リストよりはもうちょっと学的・プロフェショナルな作文ができるようになったらキャリアには便利かもしれませんし、今欠けているところを埋めてみたいです。Ｌａｎｇ８などで投稿したらいいかも知れません。ニュースも聞いて聞き取り練習を毎週すれば有益でしょう。

それに、話し相手ができたらやっぱり役に立つと思います。友達の日本人の奥さんがそろそろ来るじゃないかと思っていますが、査証のこともあるし大雨のせいで混乱しているでしょうから、一体いつなのか分かりません。でもＪＡＳＭの毎週土曜日の日本語会話サークルもあるらしくて、一度参加してみたら毎週参加するかどうかを判断してみます。

で、二つのゴールは、話せるトピック・使えるスタイルの範囲を広げることと、日本語の会話を増やすことですね。お正月に覚えていたらいいですけどね。。。

[doitforthek-s]

July Target Language Writing Challenge (9/31): Write today’s to-do list in your target language

Target Language 1: Mandarin

1. 驾驶测试

2. 跟家人一起吃饭

3. 写粉丝小说

Target Language 2: Japanese

１．運転免許試験

２．家族と一緒に昼ご飯を食べる

３．ファンフィクションを書く

Translation:

1. Driving test

2. Lunch with my family

3. Write fan fiction