My practice thread - Page 6

Originally Posted by Esperar (Post 86715)

OK, here's some more (bad) Spanish sentences!

Estoy por ir al hotel - I'm going to the hotel. (How do you pronounce "ir" by the way? Is it like "err?")

Esta flor es bonita - This flower is pretty.:good:

Este coche es naranja - This car is orange.:good:

Los perros estan loco - The dogs are crazy. What's the difference between "son" and "están?"

Podré hablar más tarde - I will speak later (Is this right, Waffle?) :good:

Ella rechazo ir al médico - She's refusing to go to the doctor.

Puedo ver algun error. Pero en la cuarta frase con la palabra "son" no estoy no seguro.

Originally Posted by Esperar (Post 86715)

OK, here's some more (bad) Spanish sentences! (Not all of them are bad at all!)

Voy ir al hotel - I'm going to the hotel. (How do you pronounce "ir" by the way? Is it like "err?") (the "i" is pronounced like the the "i" in 'brick'. The 'r' is not as strong as "rr". It sounds close to the 'r' in 'circular', a bit less 'liquid' and a bit 'stronger') (Boy, it doesn't seem easy to explain, you can try 'es.forvo.com' in the net, to actually hear words.) [If you say "Voy a ir al hotel =(literally) I'm going to go to the hotel. It will also work, but it is more for the future.]

Esta flor es bonita - This flower is pretty. :good:

Este coche es naranja - This car is orange. :good:

Los perros están locos - The dogs are crazy. What's the difference between "son" and "están?" ["son" gives you the idea of the dogs being 'permanently' crazy, as part of their 'personality' or 'dogonality' ;). With 'están' you mean they 'are' crazy (just now, or temporarily).]

Podré hablar más tarde - I will speak later (Is this right, Waffle?)
What you say here is, "I will be able to speak later."
"Hablaré más tarde" is your "I will speak later"

Ella rehusado ir al médico - She's refusing to go to the doctor.
Ella se niega a ir al médico. (Note that "se rehusa" is something many speakers, including myself would say, but is it actually incorrect.)

Puedo ver uno error. Cero es la cuartao frase con la palabra "son" pero no estoy seguro.

Originally Posted by Esperar (Post 86738)

The difference between son and están are the same as the differences between ser and estar, right? They belong to those verbs right? I realized that after I wrote it out, and should have edited it. I really need to work on ser and estar more.

Those explanations are great though. By the way, I must be improving, because I got in to a conversation with a Spanish speaker on MSN by accident, and he understood me! LOL.

Originally Posted by wafflestomp (Post 86744)

Yeah, you certainly are improving from when you started.

There's a lot of situations where ser and estar are both totally correct, but then you have to narrow it down to what you want to mean, do you want to mean that the dogs are crazy because of the mailman at the door? Or do you want to mean that the dogs are crazy in general since the day you got them?

Originally Posted by Esperar (Post 86766)

I swear. I'm learning more from these forums than my books.



I meant the dogs were crazy right in that moment, not over all. That would fall to están.

Originally Posted by CrOtALiTo (Post 86780)

Hello.

I have a question for you.
The post title.
Where did you get it?
From a movie or magazine or simply from you imagination.

I ask you this because it sound strong for me.
Crazy dogs are just is the movie's name.:)

Originally Posted by Esperar (Post 86806)

I just thought it up.

Estoy voy a escribir algunas frases aquí. (Should I have left estoy out of this sentence?) Espero que esto es correcto.

Frases is feminine so you need "algunas" and with esperar, you need to put "que" after it. Also, when you don't signify what you are talking about, you just use "esto" which is the neutral form for 'this' (it doesn't have a gender).

Esta frase fue escrito en el pretérito.

Gender for this, and also, when you want to say "Was written" you have to make sure you're using the past participle (like in English, for the verb to write, the past tense is "wrote" but the participle is "written").


El siguiente frase La frase siguiente fue escrito en el futuro.

Diré ella esa por la mañana.

Do you mean "I will say that to her in the morning"? I don't follow the sentence, apologies.

¿Viste la frase anterior?
Sounds better as "has visto la frase anterior"

Originally Posted by Esperar (Post 86806)

I just thought it up.

Estoy voy a escribo algunos frases aquí. (Should I have left estoy out of this sentence?) Espero este es correcto.

Estoy por escribir algunas fraces aquí.

Este frase estaba escribí de la pretérita tensa.
Esta frase que escribi del preterito tenso. ( Although you don't need to write the word Estaba here in that phrase, sometimes it tend to be right with the word Estaba in pass, but in this moment the word Estaba is unnecessary there.


El siguiente frase desde este, es un futuro tensa.
La siguiente frase es del futuro tenso.
Please here you check the corrections I did in my own correction.


Diré ella esa por la mañana.
Really I didn't understand you wrote there already the phrase doesn't make sense for me.
Please check out the phrase again.


¿Viste el anterior frase?

Pensado acullá son errores, pero, puedo cambiar algunos más tarde con la ayuda de otros.

Originally Posted by Esperar (Post 86815)

"Diré ella esa por la mañana" means what you thought.

I'll study that link you gave me.

Originally Posted by Esperar (Post 86815)

"Diré ella esa por la mañana" means what you thought.

I'll study that link you gave me.

Originally Posted by Esperar (Post 86828)

I'm not very good at using "lo" "te" etc. :(

"Pensado acullá son errores, pero, puedo cambiar algunos más tarde con la ayuda de otros."

How was this sentence? I'm assuming it needs work.

Originally Posted by Esperar (Post 86841)

Yes, I don't know what I was thinking using pensado and acullá. I must have had a brain fart, because pensado means "thinking."