日本語が難しいということは言うまでもないけど、面白いだけましだ。人々は勉強し続けるだけのことはある。
It goes without saying that Japanese is difficult, but at least it’s interesting. No wonder people continue to study it.
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今日は、友達が「一緒に映画を見ませんか？」と言った。私は時間がないので、見なかった。
translation
Today my friend asked me, “why don’t we watch a movie together?” Because I didn’t have time, I didn’t watch it.
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キムさんの声は星野さんの声より好きです。
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この食べ物は美味しいじゃないか
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今日、絵を描いたり日本語の文法と漢字をもうちょっと学んだりした。明後日に十月だから、私が悲しい。時間、止めてください！
Summary
Today, I did things like drawing pictures and I learnt a bit more Japanese grammar and Kanji. Since on the day after tomorrow will be October, I’m sad. 
Time, please stop!
I really need to some creative juice to write better daily sentences… this probably isn’t grammatically correct in english too～
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ファンタジー本は読み終わったばかりです。
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最近日本式麻雀（りいち麻雀）を興味が入れた。すごくおもしろい！
I got interested in Japanese Mahjong (Riichi Mahjong) recently. It’s really fun!
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少々お待ちしていただければよろしいでございましょうか?
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That can’t be real… Is it?
How would you translate that?
Probably not. I was just bored. 
As long as it’s not too much trouble for your good self, could I possibly ask you to wait for a small moment for me?
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Just as an update to this, I asked a retired Japanese teacher in my community Japanese class. I explained that I know you obviously wouldn’t say it in real life, but is it grammatically correct?
She said “それは．．．やばい”
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母は買い物が買わないって言った。
Is this correct? I will be really grateful for your help:).
Translation
“Do not buy anymore stuff,” mom said.
Hi @MiuGarden , great start
Your sentence reads something more like:
Mum said shopping doesn’t buy.
母 は: mum as topic; 買い物 が: shopping as subject( then refering to next verb)買わない : verb to not shop; ‘quote’ said
→ as for mum, shopping does not buy, she said
To get your desired sentence, we can switch a few things around.
Mum doesnt want you to buy ‘stuff’, so lets make 物(もの) the subject. The verb is good but its supposed to be command, so adding a grammer point like なmakes it a strong command from (without something telling/commanding it would just read ‘to not buy stuff’); & もう for anymore
母はもう物が買わないなと言っていた
Mum told me not to buy anymore stuff
Caveat: I’m pretty confident of everything but the ‘anymore’ component, and the use of もう in the structure.
Someone more experienced could chime in and fix that @admin
Hope that helps anyway!
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ありがとうございます！ 
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close! おしい！
買わない（か）な = I don’t buy, I wonder
買わないで = Don’t buy. (casual command/request)
買うな = Don’t buy! (casual imperative, your mom wouldn’t say this …unless you were about to buy poison or something)
買うのをやめなさい = Do not buy! (negative polite command, something your mom would say if she’s fed up with you) (could also translate this as “Quit buying [it]!”)
物を買う → 買う needs を
かな | Japanese Grammar SRS
ないでください | Japanese Grammar SRS
Verb[ないで] | Japanese Grammar SRS
な | Japanese Grammar SRS
なさい | Japanese Grammar SRS
Ask-a-Teacher: Is it possible to use NASAI with a negative verb?
My mom said, “Don’t buy stuff anymore”
母は「もう物を買わないで」と言った (added brackets to show it’s a quote)
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素晴らしい！フレッドさん、ありがとうございました。
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Thank you so much!
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ベッドで寝るよりご飯に寝る方が好きです。
Corrections are welcome!
Translation
I like sleeping in cooked rice more than in bed.
12月フランス語のテストを受ける予定ので、JLPTを受けられるよりほかない。ストレスが増やし甲斐がないと思った。来年のJLPTまでたくさん時間があるので、合格するに決まっている！
Since I’m taking a French test in December, I’m not able to take the JLPT. I thought it wasn’t worth the added stress. I’ll certainly pass since I have a lot of time until the next JLPT.
I was in my community Japanese class yesterday and I learned something, then randomly remembered this post I made 3 years ago…
Yeah anyway, my teacher told me that traditionally, 嫁 is used when talking about your son’s wife and not your own. She accepted that these days, many younger people use it for their own wife, but that isn’t actually correct.