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Im having troubles understanding these sentences:
1)少しでいいから話を聞いてもらえ

2)オレ入団したくてここですっと待ってたんです!!
I know hes saying he wants to join but it gets confusing after the て

3)Mafiasoになって 金稼いで弟らをまともに食わしてやらなきゃなんねーのさ
Im getting along the lines of "I want to be a mafiaso to earn money for my little brothers and to feed them" But after the 食わして It really loses me.

4)オレの家は貧乏でさ小っさい弟達がいるんだけど 母親はいねーし 親父はのんだくれのバクチ好きでさ
I know hes talking about how his family has been poor and his younger brothers but I cant sentence it properly.

Small question:
お前の話なんぞ知るか 
What does なんぞ mean?
Thanks for any help!
 
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1) Even if a little, listen to me (this was wrong, see mikkih's post)
2) I think it should be ずっと rather than すっと? With that assumption: I wanted to join so I've been waiting here forever!!
3) やらなきゃなんねー = やらなければならない I have to become a mafioso to make money and put food on the table for my little brothers
4) My family is poor, and though I have little brothers, we don't have a mother, and dad is a drunk and likes to gamble
5) なんぞ in a certain sense is like など = "and stuff like that"
 
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Im having troubles understanding these sentences:
1)少しでいいから話を聞いてもらえ

2)オレ入団したくてここですっと待ってたんです!!
I know hes saying he wants to join but it gets confusing after the て

3)Mafiasoになって 金稼いで弟らをまともに食わしてやらなきゃなんねーのさ
Im getting along the lines of "I want to be a mafiaso to earn money for my little brothers and to feed them" But after the 食わして It really loses me.

4)オレの家は貧乏でさ小っさい弟達がいるんだけど 母親はいねーし 親父はのんだくれのバクチ好きでさ
I know hes talking about how his family has been poor and his younger brothers but I cant sentence it properly.

Small question:
お前の話なんぞ知るか 
What does なんぞ mean?
Thanks for any help!
I rephrased your lines. Let me know if you still have problems. (Please post your translation as well.)

1)少しでいいから話を聞いてもらえ:
少しでも構わないから、(~さんに)(あなたの)話を聞いてもらうといい:

2)オレ入団したくてここですっと待ってたんです!!:
私は入団したくて、ここ/この場所で (あなたを) ずっと待っていました

3)Mafiasoになって 金稼いで弟らをまともに食わしてやらなきゃなんねーのさ

食わしてやらなきゃなんねーのさ: 食べさせなければならない
change "want to (be)" to "need to/have to (become)."

4)オレの家は貧乏でさ小っさい弟達がいるんだけど 母親はいねーし 親父はのんだくれのバクチ好きでさ:

私の家は貧乏で、小さな/幼い 弟達がいるが、 母親はいないし、親父は大酒飲みで博打が好きだ

のんだくれ:お酒をたくさん飲んで酔っ払うこと

5)お前の話なんぞ知るか
なんぞ=なんか;なんて; など; なぞ;のようなものは
It's added to degrade the noun 話. You don't really need to translate it.  
知るか:I don't care; Who cares (about ...)

---------- Post added April 30, 2014 at 07:43 AM ---------- Previous post was April 29, 2014 at 10:00 AM ----------

<聞く VS 聞いてもらう>

聞く:to listen
聞け:Listen [an imperative form]

聞いてもらう:have someone listen to you/to what you need to say
聞いてもらえ: Have someone to listen to you [an imperative form] * See (1)
 

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Ah okay i get it now! Thank you both!
 
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