spoke

Not so fast. 'speaks' is a good translation of the Japanese. So you need to unlink the translations it doesn't match, not change it.

You just made me realize something. I am learning German so I look for sentences in that language. I have stupidly assumed that all the sentences in German that I find, such as "Niemand sprach mir mir", are the original sentence, of which the other sentences below it are translations. Thus, I thought you were translating the German sentence which is why I corrected you ("sprach" is past tense - "spoke"). But it appears that you were translating from the Japanese. Is there any way to tell which is the original sentence?

> Is there any way to tell which is the original sentence?

Not easily, but by looking at the creation dates and times of the sentences you can sometimes work it out. It looks like the Portuguese sentence came first here.

http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/383950

Anyway, what you can do is add "Nobody spoke to me." as a translation to the German, and people should link it to the sentences it matches.

great, thanks for your help