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Very first homework assignment
Please, can you look through my very first homework assignment? I have to answer following 5 questions:
1/ ¿Quién es Cristiano Ronaldo y cómo es él? Cristiano Ronaldo es un famoso futbolista portugués. Es un jugador del Real Madrid y de la selección de fútbol de Portugal. Es rápido y fuerte. Es considerado uno de los mejores jugadores del mundo. 2/ ¿De dónde es Carlos Santana? Carlos Santana es de México. 3/ Cómo es Julia Roberts? Describela. Julia Roberts es alta y delgada. Ella tiene el pelo largo y la sonrisa grande. 4/ ¿Es exigente tu profesora de español? Mi profesora de español es muy exigente. 5/ Escribe 5 frases sobre tu vida. Me llamo Grzesiek. Tengo treinta y tres años. Vivo en Olsztyn. Trabajo de secretario. Mi hobby es leer libres y aprender idiomas. (the last 2 sentences are supposed to mean: I work as a clerk. My hobbies are reading books and learning languages) Thank you in advance. Last edited by spanishlearner; February 23, 2012 at 01:45 AM. |
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I've marked mistakes in red and gave hints/suggestions in purple. 'Hobby' has a plural form that matches the English plural. You could also use another word. |
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That was a lot more complicated than my very first homework assignment in Spanish. Ours was "Translate to Spanish: I am writing a letter" or something very simple like that. Heck we probably only used regular -ar verbs for the first one =)
Not bad at all for a first assignment. |
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¡muy bien!
great answers! for question #5 you can also say, "Soy secretario" for indicating your profession. Another word for "hobby" is "pasatiempo". |
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We say ella tiene una gran sonrisa y no una sonrisa grande.
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...unless you want to emphasize that her mouth and teeth are big (as they are).
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Thank you, you've all been most helpful.
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Ella tiene el pelo largo y This is because of the rule concerning the placement of adjectives either before or after the noun depending on whether they describe the reality objectively vs. subjectively. The "pasatiempo" looks almost English. Are there many such examples in Spanish which make the language sound or look like English? Quote:
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Let´s get back to characterizing my Spanish teacher: ¡Mi profesora de español es muy exigente! Es una excelente profesora, pero es una impatiente, irracional y loca chica. Is it ok? And what about the rule on adjectives, which is mentioned above? |
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Una sonrisa grande = "a big smile": in comparison to other people, a smile that is large in proportion to the face, rather than average or small. Some adjectives normally appear only before their noun; some adjectives normally appear only after their noun; and some adjectives may appear either before or after their noun, but usually there is a difference in meaning which is not necessarily predictable that you must learn individually for each verb. Quote:
In the context in which the comment was made, there are 3 general classes of verbs: -ar, -er, and -ir (identified by the vowel in the inifinitive ending). There are also schemes for sub-classifying groups of verbs based on different types of irregularities; the goal is to identify groups of verbs that exhibit identical patterns of irregularity, much like English sing/sang/sung groups with ring/rang/rung. That's a third possibility, alongside "pasatiempo" and "hobby". However, "pasatiempo" is probably the most-commonly used word to translate "hobby" or "pastime". In this case the adjective sequence "impaciente, irracional y loca" should follow "chica". |
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Constitution: constitución; distribution: distribución; contribution: contribución; action: acción...
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