英語でお国自慢をしてみるコミュのLet's Try

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恥ずかしながら、文法なんかは結構いい加減です。ガイジンさんが８割分かればよいかと。

I'm ashamed of my poor grammar. I think it's okay if non-Japanese can understand 80%.

◆麻布十番で今日お祭りがあります。写真貼らなくても、なにかそこで見たものを英訳してみるものいいでしょう。

Today there's a festival in Azabu Juban. Even if you don't attach snapshot, you can try to translate something you found there in English.

〔英訳について〕 (About English Translation)

◎郷土の偉人の逸話、裏話なんかは面白いかも。最初は短い文章のほうが、読者は何故？と思って興味がわくでしょう。

Inside story about a great man in your hometown can be interesting. If you start to write in very short sentence, reader may become curious wondering why.

◎ALCの英辞郎は数千円で買えるしPCに乗っけると英訳する際便利です。

You can buy "Eijiro", an electronic dictionary, which is cheap, a few thousands yen. Once you install it on your PC, it's convenient to start translation.

(Example)

◇明治の偉大な詩人は多重債務者？　国語教科書の金田一京助から借りたお金は浅草での女遊びに専ら費やされ、それが為の貧困だったときくとイメージ変わります。

◆A great poet in Meiji era was heavy debtor? He spent all money borrowed from his friend K. Kindaichi famous for Japanese dictionary in womanizing in Asakaku. When we hear the reason why he was so poor was due to this, that hurts his image.