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Newcomer in the Japanese stackexchange. :) My knowledge in the language is
fairly limited and I need your help.

I'd like to know how is " ** _My little sister can't run this fast_** " in
Japanese? Different online translations give different variations. I don't
know how correct or "stiff" they are.

And if you're wondering, there's an anime " _My little sister can't be this
cute"(Ore no imouto ga konnani kawaii wake ga nai)_ [俺の妹がこんなに可愛いわけがない]. All
the episodes are titled "my little sister can't ...". So I'd like the
**closest** translation to the anime title.

Here's what I know:

Ore no - my

imouto - little sister

ga - is (when new info is introduced)

konnani - in this way

kawaii - cute

wake - being

ga - is (when new info is introduced) but why twice?

nai - negative particle

And I expect it to be something like this: _Ore no imouto ga konnani hayaku ga
hashiranai_

P.S. Also, could you provide the correct sentence in Japanese hieroglyphs, as
well? Onegai.

**_EDIT:_**

Thank you both for the thorough explanations. :)

And I didn't know that Japanese symbols are not called "hieroglyphs" at all.
English is not my native language. Maybe the term is most suitable for ancient
writing systems.
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Help with "My little sister can't run this fast" in the style of ～こんなに～わけがない
The most literal translation of this title would be:

> There is no way my little sister is this cute.

The _is_ in the above sentence is not really grammatical and should be
understood as _can be_.

Just mimicking the title of the anime you get:

(hashiru : run ; hayaku : fast)

>
> おれ{ore}の{no}い{i}も{mo}う{u}と{to}が{ga}こ{ko}ん{n}な{na}に{ni}は{ha}や{ya}く{ku}は{ha}し{shi}る{ru}わ{wa}け{ke}が{ga}な{na}い{i}。  
>  俺の妹がこんなに速く走るわけがない。  
>  My little sister can't run this fast

* * *

First が{ga} is not _is_ but が tells you that what is just before が is the
subject of the sentence. Here there are two が because two sentences are
intertwined.

> 1: 俺の妹がこんなに可愛い  
>  1: My little is this cute.
>
> 2: ～わけがない  
>  2: No way ～ is true.

Combining the two: No way (the fact that) _my little sister is this cute_ is
true which translates more properly to _My little sister can't be this cute_
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Your own translation is pretty close. Here it is, tweaked a bit:

俺【おれ】の妹【いもうと】がこんなに速【はや】くは走【はし】れない  
_Ore no imōto ga konna ni hayaku wa hashirenai_

Breaking this down word for word:

_I_ (very informal, masculine) + [possessive] + _younger sister_ + [subject] +
_this degree_ + [adverb marker] + _quickly_ + [contrastive topic] + _can't
run_

The main differences from your try: 1) _ga_ can't be used that way after an
adverb, while _wa_ can be, and _wa_ is often used in negative statements like
this one; and 2) _hashir **a** nai_ just means "doesn't run", while the
potential form for "can't run" would be _hashir **e** nai_.

As an aside, Japanese characters are called _kana_ for the simpler phonetic
characters (either the rounder
_[hiragana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana)_ for native words, or the
angular _[katakana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana)_ for borrowed
words, sound effects, and the like -- click through to the Wikipedia pages),
or _[kanji](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji)_ for the more complicated
ideographic / logographic characters, most of which were originally imported
from written Chinese.
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