El diario de septiembre: ¿Quién soy?

[Jessica]

Haha! My first Spanish homework of my sophomore year!

Every month, like last year, has a journal entry with a certain topic. This month is about me. Same as last year, except you have to see if I have 12-15 sentences. Check my Spanish as usual - and my Spanish probably isn't as good because over the summer...well it kinda faltered anyways I appreciate any help and thanks in advance!

like last year, I will tackle it one by one. I'll write a few sentences and you check it. I will add more. Then when I have enough, I will put them together, maybe make some changes, maybe add some more details, and you will check it again.

¿Quién soy?

Here are the first few sentences.

Me llamo Jessica. Mi nombre de español es Sofía. Tengo catorce años. Mi cumpleaños es la diez de agosto. Soy callada.

[effe]

Originally Posted by jchen

Haha! My first Spanish homework of my sophomore year!

Every month, like last year, has a journal entry with a certain topic. This month is about me. Same as last year, except you have to see if I have 12-15 sentences. Check my Spanish as usual - and my Spanish probably isn't as good because over the summer...well it kinda faltered anyways I appreciate any help and thanks in advance!

like last year, I will tackle it one by one. I'll write a few sentences and you check it. I will add more. Then when I have enough, I will put them together, maybe make some changes, maybe add some more details, and you will check it again.

¿Quién soy?

Here are the first few sentences.

Me llamo Jessica. Mi nombre de español es Sofía. Tengo catorce años. Mi cumpleaño es la diez de agosto. Soy callada.

I am not sure but i correct the mistake that i saw.

[Jessica]

I don't think it's cumpleaño. I think there should be an s like mine did...

[pjt33]

Originally Posted by jchen

Me llamo Jessica. Mi nombre deen español es* Sofía. Tengo catorce años. Mi cumpleaños es lael diez de agosto. Soy callada.

* I would use a conditional, but if you haven't learnt that yet then either let it stand under caution or use a different verb (equivaler, perhaps). I'm not convinced that that sentence is true (etymological dictionaries guess that Jessica comes from a Hebrew word meaning "God beholds", whereas Sofía comes from a Greek word meaning "wisdom"), but the first rule of language homework is to lie to make things more interesting so it doesn't really matter whether it's true or not.

I'm slightly uneasy about "es el diez de agosto" - I would incline to "es el día diez de agosto", so wait to see what someone better than me has to say on that.

Cumpleaños is correct.

[Jessica]

hmmm lie? I think I shouldn't lie yet, because this entry is for my teacher to know me better

[Tomisimo]

Originally Posted by jchen

Me llamo Jessica. Mi nombre de en español es Sofía. Tengo catorce años. Mi cumpleaños es la el diez de agosto. Soy callada.

It would be more common to say "Cumplo años el diez de agosto", but you haven't learned that yet.

[Jessica]

Originally Posted by pjt33

* I would use a conditional, but if you haven't learnt that yet then either let it stand under caution or use a different verb (equivaler, perhaps). I'm not convinced that that sentence is true (etymological dictionaries guess that Jessica comes from a Hebrew word meaning "God beholds", whereas Sofía comes from a Greek word meaning "wisdom"), but the first rule of language homework is to lie to make things more interesting so it doesn't really matter whether it's true or not.

I'm slightly uneasy about "es el diez de agosto" - I would incline to "es el día diez de agosto", so wait to see what someone better than me has to say on that.

Cumpleaños is correct.

oh and about my Spanish name and my regular name, I chose Sofía as the name to use in class. we get to choose our own Spanish names and in 7th grade I chose that. of course, they don't mean the same thing

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

David's corrections are right. And you chose a nice name, Sofía.

[Jessica]

thanks

[sosia]

"Me llamo Jessica. Mi nombre en español es Sofía. Tengo catorce años. Mi cumpleaños es el diez de agosto. Soy callada."
"Mi cumpleaños es el día diez de agosto" also , but if possible, we try to avoid saying extra words. We're lazy