"Nie jestem wesoły, chociaż piję wino."
Translation:I am not cheerful, even though I am drinking wine.
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It's close, for sure, but I'd want a different structure in English: "despite my drinking wine." The possessive gerund helps to maintain the meaning of the Polish "chociaż piję wino" (and makes it more poetic if you're translating a text), but the direct translation is "even though I'm drinking wine."
You mean we'd rather write "I am not cheerful Although I am drinking wine" ? Perhaps replacing "Although" with "although" (small "a") would be better. I noticed sentence case is usually respected (first letter of first word of the right answer is a capital letter), so "Although" is a bit misleading (provided "It is accepted, it should have worked")...
Since we're now talking about English instead of Polish, may I point out that neither word is at all natural here. "Jolly" is very dated - I don't know if anybody uses it now - and suggests a general disposition rather than an immediate state brought on by drinking wine. "Joyous" usually refers to occasions rather than people ("joyful" would be more normal, though I wouldn't use it of a wine-induced state). I'd say the translation suggested by the context is "cheerful".
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How about I have wine in the sense of drink like I have a glass of water. This was not accepted.