I'm sorry, but I don't speak Japanese.

I'm a Muslim, so I fast during Ramadan.

I'm Jewish.

She used to be a prostitute, but now she has started a new life.

Will you marry me?

"Do you want to have a meal? Take a bath? Or choose me?" she said jokingly.

He was hiding the fact that he was an illegitimate child.

He was my student, but now he has become so proficient that it can be said 'the student has surpassed his teacher.'

Since he started his new job, he's been lively as if he were a fish back in water.

He absorbs new information like a sponge soaking up water.