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Good morning.

I was wondering if I can get some help with translating a sentence from
Japanese to English, and also if I can receive some feedback about the way
that I try to speak Japanese.

**Me:** アメリカ人の中このチャネルはSF5をゲームしてくださいといっていました。

**What I thought I was saying:** The American people in the channel said
"Please play SF5 (Street Fighter 5)."

**What I wanted to say:** The American people in the chatroom are saying to
please play street fighter 5!

**A response I got:** アメリカ人もSF5やるきか。

**What I think it maybe means:** I see も so I think this is kind of like "too"
in English. So I think the person is saying I want you to play SF5 too? やる - I
wasn't aware of using this instead of げーむをする. Also, I don't know what きか at
the end means.

**I apologize for any confusion. I took 3 semesters of Japanese but my last
semester was around 2010. So it has been a long time. I just thought I would
try and see if I can try and hold basic internet conversations.
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> アメリカ時の中このチャネルはSF5をゲームしてくださいといっていました。

Unfortunately, this sentence is broken, and it must have been difficult for
them to figure out what you wanted to say. If I had to translate this sentence
back into English, it would be something like "In American time this channel
was saying please game SF5".

The biggest mistake is 時【じ】, which means _time_. I guess you wanted to say
アメリカ人【じん】 (American _people_ ). The correct sentence would be
"このチャンネルのアメリカ人はSF5をプレイしてくださいと言っています。" (if you actually wanted to use present
tense)

> アメリカ人もSF5やるきか。

  * ゲーム(を)する and ゲーム(を)やる are the same, except that the latter sounds more casual and colloquial.
  * きか in this context is 気【き】+か, where 気 means 'intention/will' and か is the question marker (the particle which turns the sentence into a question). ～する気だ means "to have an intention to do ～".

So the sentence means "(This) American is gonna play SF5 too?", and I think
this was said not to you but to someone else in the chatroom. People usually
don't address _you_ (the second person) as アメリカ人, unless your screen name was
`アメリカ人`.
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