Would someone be able to translate this to English for me please?

මන් කොහෙවත් යන්නෙ නැ මගෙ පන. ඔයා තමයි මගේ අවසාන නැවතුම මගෙ දෝණියෝ හිකෙන්න දුක හිතුනා පන

Hei guys, I need your help!

Can someone rate the following translation? i used the new Gemini from google
and i'm curios if i can use it for talkin with my Sri Lankan friends.

Hi Udara, this is a test message. Please let me know if the translation is good.

The 49-year-old man struggles quite a bit with English, so I want to send him messages in Sinhala so that we don't have any misunderstandings.

It's great that you found people, and it would be good for us to be able to write to them in their native language because that way we will be better understood.

Regarding the tea, please, if it's not too much trouble, could you bring me between 1 and 3 kg of green tea, natural without flavors.

Translation:

ආයුබෝවන් උදාර, මෙය පරීක්ෂා පණිවුඩයක්. පරිවර්තනය හොඳදැයි මට කියන්න.

49 හැවිරිදි මිනිහාට ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂාව හොඳින් කථා කිරීමට බැරි එන නිසා මම ඔහුට සිංහලෙන් පණිවුඩ එවන්න බලාපොරොත්තු වෙනවා. එය හේතුවෙන් අපට කිසිම වැරදි වටහා ගැනීමක් ඇති වන්නේ නැහැ.

ඔබට මිනිසුන් හමු වූ බව ඇසී සතුටුයි, ඔවුන්ගේ මව් බසෙන් ලියන්න හැකි වුණොත් හොඳයි. එය හේතුවෙන් අපට ඔවුන් හොඳින් වටහා ගන්නට පුළුවන් වේවි.

තේ පිළිබඳව, එය ඔබට අපහසු නොවේ නම්, 1 සිට 3 කිලෝග්‍රෑම් ප්‍රමාණයේ ස්වභාවික කොළ තේ, රස නැතිව මට ගෙනා ගන්න.

Thanks for your help!

Therawan Saranai,

Can anybody tell me what the meaning of 'meth sithin' is please?

Thank you.

Suwapat Veva.

Hey can someone find me a video on YT in Sinhala about: how should a parent treat their child, to have a healthy relationship with them and how important it’s communication? Specially how a parent should deal with their kid when they are having a disagreement/ an argument with them.

(I need one of those therapists videos where they teach you and give out advices)

Therwan saranai. Is there any Sinhala dictionary focused on the spoken language? Or at least a mixed one (spoken+written) but with indications where this or that word is used. It can be Sinhala-English, English-Sinhala or even Sinhala-Sinhala. Transcription is not required (I know Sinhalese alphabet). At the moment, all I have is a mini-dictionary in "teach yourself Sinhalese" by A.W.L. Silva (it's mixed though). Thank you in advance.

Things like "maseta poyata", "takketama kiwwa", "kage hari reddak hodanawa"

Can someone kindly translated this?

කාර්යාල අවශ්‍යතා

Hello!

Just by way of introduction, I am a monolingual English person living in the UK. I am married to a British Sri Lankan, she doesn't speak sinhala but can get the jist (so she can't teach me directly). Her parents are both native to Sri Lanka and have lived in the UK since the late 70's (but they didn't teach her so, not sure they can teach me but will be useful conversation partners).

I've always wanted to learn another language and now that me and my wife have a son (he's 2) and so I have a particular motivation to want to learn Sinhala. My ultimate goal is to become fluent in the spoken language so that I can teach my son. I want to make sure that whilst he may be British born he will still have a strong connection back to his Sri Lankan side of his culture.

I've purchased the lazy but smart sinhala premium courses, and made a bunch of flashcards on Anki in addition to having a Utalk subscription.I also have a tutor on italki - many of the classes tend to be rote repition and whilst I have been making progress it feels pretty slow and limited.

Many of the leading language experts reccomend learning through comprehensible input. The emphasis is not on speaking the language but of developing an understanding in a natural way (similar to infants) and the actual talking will come naturally. After all when we first learn a language we don't learn by studying the grammar, we hear our parents and other natives speak the language and learn through context. So at it's core with the natural language learning method you learn via listening to TV ( with subtitles in Sinahala) , native speakers, radio, and above all (according to some) reading the target language (sinhala).

One challenge I can see with trying to apply this approach to Sinhala is that I have heard the spoken and written languages are significantly different which as far as I understand is uncommon in most languages. I brought this up to one of the YouTubers and was met with a pretty ignorant response of "I don't know about Sinhala but I am sure that's not the case".

I have a very rudimentary understanding of the script, but without the reading (a major source of comprehensible input) I feel a bit lost.

So I guess I have a few questions;

1. Does my understanding that the spoken and written languages are so meaningfully different that it is essentially unproductive to go this route if understanding the spoken language is my goal?
2. Does anyone have any recommendations of Sri Lankan TV shows that I could access online ( I have a VPN so that should help me get around any restrictions)?
3. is anyone else here a non-native speaker who has developed fluency and if so - how did you approach the process?
4. Are there any discords or similar that would be useful for me to join

Thank you in advance (Bohoma istutii) to anyone who can help.

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Hi,

Can anyone please help me what the name written here is?

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I have seen the word රම්ය රම්‍ය written in both ways. What should be the correct one or is both correct? And how should I know when to use which in other words? If anyone can provide more details on it I would be grateful. Thanks

I want to go to this event (Full Moon Poya Day) but Im not Sinhalese and can't read what the poster says to work out what's going on at what time. Please can anyone help? Thanks

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Hello,

In the association where I am working we want to make people discover new dishes around the world and it is important for us to use to proper term when saying “enjoy your meal” or “Bon appetit” How would you say it in Sinhala? Or what other phrases would you use before starting a meal?

Thanks for your help!