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Old December 03, 2010, 03:31 PM
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Why, if you don't know much Spanish, would you want to start learning with this text? I don't mean to offend, but the English narrative is "out there." How could studying abstract ideas be helpful to a beginner?

All machine translators will fail to render the correct translation. And, since the English is a bunch of abstract ideas, not many of us who understand English would be able to do much better.
In some of your sentences, nearly every word in the "translation" needs to be changed. Are you prepared for all the grammar and vocabulary lessons that will necessarily follow?
Again, not meaning to offend, but you'll be told you need to use the subjunctive mood. What have you studied about that mood?
If I were you, I'd start with "the sun rises, the sun sets" instead of "the dark for a few."
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