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Spanish Presentation
I have a Spanish Presentation for Monday (I did not find out until yesterday...)
It has to be 2-3 minutes long so I'm thinking just over 200 words if I keep a nice, steady pace. There's also a questions portion at the end so our teacher has given us likely questions, I'm studying the answers along with vocab, et c. Could you possibly help with the presentation itself? Just conjugation/grammar wise as I'm not too good with noticing mistakes. This is the first half: Quote:
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So yeah, if you could help me that would be fantastic and any other learning/memorising tips, especially for presentations and I will be extremely grateful. (Going through it, I am noticing very silly mistakes myself so sorry for the scruffy grammar. I've added the second parts in, hopefully this will amount to 2-3 minutes.) Last edited by ObliviousMemories; January 26, 2013 at 10:55 AM. |
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"If I had more money" - This clause is subjunctive in nature (if you don't have something, the subjunctive mood is needed to express that). The imperfect subjunctive form of the verb is required. "I would have liked" - This clause has a verb in the perfect conditional (it contains the helping verb 'have' and a past participle). The same conjugation exists in Spanish. This site has a verb conjugator. At the top left-hand side of each page, you'll see a dialog box that has 'Search' written in it. Replace that with 'conj:tener' to get the conjugations for the verb 'tener'. |
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Thank you for the help, like I said I'm noticing a lot of the sillier mistakes myself. I'm just in a bit of a rush because learning this much Spanish is a lot for me to do in a week - let alone two days, let alone with the amount of other homework I have. I'll get on making changes, proof reading as much as I can, et c. ¡Gracias! Also I looked up "ano" without the ñ.
Also I think I've pretty much corrected everything apart from... "Sin embargo (missing punctuation) (missing punctuation)..." I'm guessing one of them is for the inverted exclamation mark but the other? Maybe I'm missing the obvious. Last edited by ObliviousMemories; January 26, 2013 at 10:54 AM. |
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"However" should be followed by a comma, in both languages. The other missing punctuation was the inverted exclamation mark, as you stated.
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preferir algo a otra cosa disfrutarse de algo = enjoy something Last edited by Rusty; January 26, 2013 at 01:32 PM. |
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As I said, missing the obvious. :P Thank you so much, you've been so much help. Now to learn this in one and a bit days... Lordy lord.
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I'm having a few issues with the "I prefer the hot to the cold" sentence.
A pesar de que le dije que no me gustaba el calor preferir un clima muy frío..? I'm really lost, haha. It's supposed to be "Even though I said I didn't like the hot weather I prefer it to very cold weather." Last edited by ObliviousMemories; January 26, 2013 at 12:50 PM. |
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"Preferir" needs to be conjugated in the first person singular, in indicative mood. So far, you have used a subjunctive structure meaning "that they would prefer me" or something like that (me prefieran).
Also, you need an OD pronoun before the verb and a preposition after the verb. Rusty has already provided you with the hint you need to write it right.
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I think I'm just going to reword the way I say it, because I need to be confident in what I'm saying at least, and that means understanding it. :P Thanks for the help though guys, it's really appreciated.
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