The Demise of Nodatta and Goomba's Domination

Much to my dismay, I learned that Nodatta got shut down this week. it was a premium website for discovering new kinds of music from all over the place. It shall be missed :(

I was doing some German homework today. It asked us to write a letter to a friend describing a Ski Holiday and how we were very unlucky and had an accident. Since it's not an in class assignment, I can check to see if my text makes some form of sense on a translator.
My translator of choice is at translation2.paralink.com

So anyways...here's how some of my story goes (in english):

Dear Kiwi,

I've already been in Linggries for two weeks. It's fantastic here, but yesterday was very unlucky. I woke up at 7 am and then had breakfast. In the afternoon I went skiing. It was very fun, but I wasn't careful. Suddenly, I fell near a tree.....(blah blah blah, the rest goes on)

Now, I wrote that in german and then translated back, and "Suddenly, I fell near a tree" turned into "Suddenly, I liked with a tree".
Oh! Wonderful, beautiful tree, how I love you so.
I really enjoy back translations :)

Anyways, it's been a while since I spoke about languages on this blog. So here's a bit of an update, as shown on Goomba's Map of Linguistic Domination (goomba was a nickname I had on the net before).
So, Goomba's show what countries I've conquered, at least beginners level.
Toad's are the ones that I want to conquer but haven't been able to yet. Also, klicken Sie das Bild!

Toad and Goomba are both in China. Toad can't speak Mandarin, he can only count. Goomba however, knows a bit of Cantonese. Not a heaping lot, but still some.
Also, Toad appears to be floating around in ocean's (like near Iceland). But, it's just that he was too big to go in the country he wanted to learn the language of (he would've covered the title). So he's just hanging out on the beach.

Toad also forgot to leave his mushroom hat's in the Middle East. Fear not! He does want to learn Arabic! He cannot keep smuggling Falafel's without learning some.

I should actually visit some of these places one day though :( otherwise I won't be able to practice anything.

Well, now back to homework. I shall now go on a quest for Exotic Blackholes in my Astronomy class.

P.S. Blackholes used to freak the hell out of me as a little'un. I'd dream that they'd appear in my room and suck everything in. That's what you get for watching space shows when you're 5!