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Sentence #5651303

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Mar1L Mar1L December 2, 2016 December 2, 2016 at 3:29:51 AM UTC flag Report link Permalink

@CK Although this is exactly what the sentence says, I tried taking out "each time" to make it sound more natural. Does this work?

CK CK December 2, 2016, edited December 2, 2016 December 2, 2016 at 3:45:01 AM UTC, edited December 2, 2016 at 3:48:10 AM UTC flag Report link Permalink

I suspect we would naturally say...

The more time we spend watching TV, the less time we spend reading.

Possibly even something like this.

As people watch more and more TV, they read fewer books.

I don't know Spanish, so I don't know exactly what the message of the Spanish is.

One thing to remember is that people will be using your English sentences to study English, so you should make sure that your English sentences are good examples of English usage. Sometimes, this may mean that even if you understand a sentence, you would just leave it untranslated. That's what I often do. Maybe at a later date, when I see the sentence again, something natural-sounding pops into my mind, and then I translate it.

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This sentence was initially added as a translation of sentence #5630428Como pasamos mucho tiempo viendo la televisión, cada vez leeremos menos libros..

As we spend a lot of time watching T.V., each time we read fewer books.

added by Mar1L, December 1, 2016

As we spend a lot of time watching T.V., we will read fewer books.

edited by Mar1L, December 2, 2016