But I think that would lead to misunderstandings because the people learning French maybe would think that this is the equivalent to the English "simple past", and this is not true.

No, in French there are the "passé composé" (il a marché), the imperfect (l'imparfait, il marchait) and the "passé simple" (il marcha). And as fas as I know, preterite means that something happened in the past, so it doesn't work either because it can refer to any of them... In this case I'd choose to keep the French term, "passé simple" to avoid misunderstandings.

Hmm I'm not sure this would work because of what Zifre has already said: an expression may be very used in one zone/country, and not in another (for example: differences between British and American English, Canadian French and French from France, Spanish from Spain and from Argentina...) That's why I'd feel reluctant to giving marks to the sentences, because maybe an expression, word, sentence sounds weird in Spain, but it may be an everyday expression in Peru.

Oh ok, we'll miss you, Dejo ;)
Enjoy the time you spend there ^^

(esp)A mí me preocupan más los nuevos cambios con respecto a los acentos, como eso de que "solo" ya no tiene por qué llevar acento, o "guion", que yo siempre había escrito "guión" y ya no se considera correcto...
Por cierto, ¿aquí debería escribir siguiendo las normas a las que estoy acostumbrada o las nuevas? Porque este corpus tiene bastantes oraciones que según la nueva gramática tendrían que cambiarse... Oh y otra cosa, ¿el script que borra los duplicados diferencia entre una palabra con acento y sin acento?

(eng)I’m more concerned about the new changes about accents, such as the fact that "solo" (=only/just or alone) does not need to carry an accent any more; or the word “guion” (=script, dash), that I had always written “guión” now can’t be written with accent… By the way, should my sentences follow the rules I’m used to or the new ones? Because right now according to this new “grammar” there are several sentences in this corpus that should be modified... Oh and one last thing: does the script that removes the duplicates distinguish between a word with and without accent if the rest of the sentence is identical?

I see your point, but it would be better if you added the sentence just once and left a comment saying to which other languages it could be linked so that a moderator could link them and you didn't have to add the same sentence several times. Tatoeba should not be filled with lots of duplications of the same sentence, but with lots of different sentences (I hope you understand).

Yeah, and if you have any question about Spanish you can ask me too ;) Take care ^^

I definitely like this idea ^^ but IMO if you just have one or two Tatoeba days a year it is not that cool to try to defeat our last marks and all that (we would have probably forgotten how many sentences we added that day :P ), I'd rather have a "Tatoeba day" every month or every two months.
By the way, which day did Tatoeba start? :P

:S It must be just in Italy, because here in Spain I can enter in my hotmail account without any problems...

I finished! Here is the Spanish version:

https://docs.google.com/documen...E&hl=en&pli=1#

I've also found some Chinese sentences that have no transliteration at all, nor simplified version, such as:

http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/505658
http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/417338
http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/417339

Can anything be done about it?

And I can translate it into Spanish, if you want.

Yes, me too, I don't receive notifications of comments anymore.

Yes, it's true, in Spanish we rarely use the personal pronouns, not only yo (I), but also él (he), ella (she), nosotros (we), vosotros, ... For example, I dream - sueño, we talk - hablamos... As the subject is implied in the conjugated forms there's no need of repeating it and if we repeated it, it would sound a bit weird, it wouldn't be the natural language that is encouraged here. But... as these words don't appear like this in a dictionary, only the infinitive forms of the verbs appear... Would these conjugated forms be accepted here?

Welcome to Tatoeba! ^^

Can anyone link these two threads? Both have the same meaning.

http://tatoeba.org/spa/sentences/show/499256

http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/456636