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En el Siete de Mayo es mi cumpleaños. Mi complea?os es fantástico. Mi familia y yo vamos salidar un jabones restaurante. Hoy mucho differente comidas. Tambien, mi amigos y familia vegan el fiesta. Recibo varia regalo. Tengo mucho divertido. . Mi cumplea?os es la mejor epoco del a?o

What I'm trying to say . . .

The 7th of may is my birthday. My birthday is fantastic. My family and I go out to a Japanese restaurant. There are many different foods. Also, my friends and family come to the party. I receive various presents. I have much fun. . My birthday is the best time of the year.

Thanks for reading in advance. Does this make sense? Does it flow? Suggestions?!

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updated Dec 12, 2014
posted by Hoyobro

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In english I would make a few changes to make it read better. Here is what I would do:

The 7th of May is my birthday, my birthday is a fantastic event. My family and I go out to a Japanese restaurant. They have many different foods. My friends and family also come to the party and I receive many presents, I have a lot of fun, my birthday is the best time of the year.

Just a few subtle changes.

The 7th of may is my birthday. My birthday is fantastic. My family and I go out to a Japanese restaurant. There are many different foods. Also, my friends and family come to the party. I receive various presents. I have much fun. . My birthday is the best time of the year.

updated Dec 12, 2014
edited by pacofinkler
posted by pacofinkler
With all respect, Paco, I wouldn't encourage all those comma splices. - AnnRon, Dec 12, 2014
likely not needed,but, i love, my commas. :-) - pacofinkler, Dec 12, 2014
heck Annie I only used 2 - pacofinkler, Dec 12, 2014
Paco, I see you have become completely hispanicized. You spelled Engilsh sin "mayúscula." - Daniela2041, Dec 12, 2014
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There are way too many errors that even a simple spell-checker would pick up.

En el Siete de Mayo es mi cumpleaños. Mi complea?os es fantástico. Mi familia y yo vamos salidar un jabones restaurante. Hoy mucho differente comidas. Tambien, mi amigos y familia vegan el fiesta. Recibo varia regalo. Tengo mucho divertido. . Mi cumplea?os es la mejor epoco del a?o

Simple fix: El siete de mayo es mi cumpleaños. Mi cumpleaños es fantástico. Mi familia y yo vamos a un restaurante japonés. Hay muchas comidas diferentes. También, mis amigos y mi familia vienen a la fiesta. Recibo varios regalos. Me divierto mucho. Mi cumpleaños es el mejor día del año.

Smoother: El siete de mayo es mi cumpleaños. Mi cumpleaños siempre es fantástico. Mi familia y yo vamos a un restaurante japonés donde hay muchas comidas diferentes. También, mis amigos y mi familia asisten a la fiesta. Recibo varios regalos y me divierto mucho. Mi cumpleaños es el mejor día del año.

I am an intermediate level learner and there could be errors still. The assumption that I made was that the party is a separate event from the trip to the restaurant- otherwise the mi familia is redundant as it is already established that they are at the restaurant.

updated Dec 12, 2014
posted by bosquederoble
Let me add that I did this as a present tense, but looking at other of the questions, I begin to wonder if it is a past event, even though the English was in present tense. - bosquederoble, Dec 12, 2014
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Some of those words don't exist.. try translating the ones you're not sure about using spanishdict.com/translation. Tomorrow morning I'd love to help you with the concordance and verbs etc, but right now I'm going to sleep. smile

updated Dec 11, 2014
posted by Suzanne_Romijnders