I thought it might be good to practice translating English - German, German - English a little^^

It works like this:
I start with an English sentence, the next person translates it into German, post a German sentence etc.
like this:
Me : English sentence
Next person: translates sentence into German, new German sentence
Next person: translates sentence into English, new English sentence
...

Please don´t make the sentences too difficult^^
Avoid using a dictionary if possible (if you look everything up and don´t even think about it this won´t have any use...)

So, the first sentence:

Lucy, a little girl from Denmark, enjoys riding very much.

okay! that would be fun, if i could speak German Lol

Okay, well...

Lucy stays "Lucy" of course...
a little girl is "ein (a) kleines (little) Mädchen (girl)"
from Denmark is "aus (from) Dänemark (Denmark)"
enjoys riding is "genießt (enjoys) das Reiten (riding)"

in German we need the article here if we cose to translate riding with a noun. If riding is translated as a verb is has to be "reiten"
pay attention to spelling!!! In German, nouns are always written with a capital letter (cf. "das Reiten" (noun) - "reiten" (verb)), verbs, adjectives or other words are written with a small letter.

very much would be "sehr viel" if you translated it literally. But a German wouldn´t say that in this context. We´d rather just say "sehr" (very; much can also mean "sehr"...)

So it would be:

Lucy, ein kleines Mädchen aus Dänemark genießt das Reiten/ reiten sehr.

New sentence:

Ich liebe schwimmen im Meer.

(If you don´t know one or two words you may use a dictionary. I recommend www.leo.org )

hmmmm is it: I love swimming...at...the ocean? OK THEN.... thats what the dictionary said, but it dont make sense.

next sentance:
Du bist mir ein feiner Freund!

I´d actually say: I love swimming in the ocean^^
I´m sorry it was probably too hard... you can´t know that "im" is actually "in dem" --> in the
We abridge it because "in dem" sounds weird somehow ^^
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A fine friend you are (to me)^^ --> I think you´d probably leave out the "to me"... but that would be the literal translation (with the "to me")
(lol that was kind of random...)

Where did you get that sentence? lol

Mine is:
How do you do today, Mrs Stevenson?
be careful with that: ´How do you do´ is a saying^^ Don´t translate it literally^^

ok, i shall ty and translate that later. I found that sentace on that dictionary you told me to use.

Okay^^ I just wondered... It´s quite old-fashioned^^

is it? huh.

Yupp^^

But what about my new sentence:

Quote:

How do you do today, Mrs Stevenson? ´How do you do´ is a saying^^ Don´t translate it literally^^

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Proud winner of the MOST LIKE EDWARD and MOST LIKELY TO RUN A BOOKSTORE (together with Alu) awards
and also very proud to say that SHANA won the CUTEST TA COUPLE award

~~~~~~~To Hana-chan, the girl I truly love~~~~~~~
I´m Sho, 50% of Shana
The opposite of war isn´t peace - it´s creation! (Rent)

its really hard

You can put "How do you do" in all to leo.org^^
You can try equivalents of it as well; maybe they´re easier to translate..^^

Quite good, Haley!!!
But I think it should be "Wie geht es Ihnen heute, Frau Stevenson?"
or maybe I´m wrong about that....?

Okies^^
So post a new sentence IN GERMAN, please, Haley^^