An african story
I tried to tranclate an african fairy tale from Hausa into English. May you please check it up for mistakes?
A tortoise and a teacher
It happened at the time when a tortoise had a wife. The wife couldn't give birth to a son for a long time. That upset them too much. One day the tortoise was sitting and found an announcement (story?) of the teacher who lived in the town close to their one. He (It?) packed his (its?) things and went to the town alone to meet with the teacher. When he arrived there, he took out everything that he had with himself and told the teacher about his (its?) problem. Then before giving a medecine the teacher demanded five shilings, one cock and a bottle of palm oil.
The teacher also warned that he shouldn't eat the medecine he'd given him when he would be at home. But when the tortoise was on his way home, he opened the bowl with the medicine and scooped out a bit of it. He found the medicine very tasty and ate it up immediately leaving nothing to his wife.
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An african story
I tried to tranclate translate an african fairy tale from Hausa into English. May you please check it up for mistakes?
A tortoise and a teacher
It happened at the time when a tortoise had a wife. The wife couldn't give birth to a son for a long time. That upset them too very much. One day the tortoise was sitting and found an announcement (story?) of the teacher who lived in the town close to theirs. He (It?) packed his (its?) things and went to the town alone to meet with the teacher. When he arrived there, he took out everything that he had with himself and told the teacher about his (its?) problem. Then before giving a medicine to the teacher demanded five shilings, one cock and a bottle of palm oil.
The teacher also warned that he shouldn't eat the medicine that he'd given him when he would be at home. But when the tortoise was on his way home, he opened the bowl with the medicine and scooped out a bit of it. He found the medicine very tasty and ate it up immediately leaving nothing to for his wife.
to be continued...
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An african story
I tried to tranclate an african fairy tale from Hausa into English. May you please check it up for mistakes?
A tortoise and a teacher
It happened at the time when a tortoise had a wife. The wife couldn't give birth to a son for a long time. That upset them too much. One day the tortoise was sitting and found an announcement (story?) of the teacher who lived in the town close to their one. He (It?) packed his (its?) things and went to the town alone to meet with the teacher. When he arrived there, he took out everything that he had with himself and told the teacher about his (its?) problem. Then before giving a medecine the teacher demanded five shilings, one cock and a bottle of palm oil.
The teacher also warned that he shouldn't eat the medecine he'd given him when he would be at home. But when the tortoise was on his way home, he opened the bowl with the medicine and scooped out a bit of it. He found the medicine very tasty and ate it up immediately leaving nothing to his wife.
to be continued...
"African" is a proper noun Tatjana, it should start with a capital letter.
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