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Hi! My name is Sarah. :) I found this forum on Google and decided to join because I would love to become fluent in Spanish someday. I'm currently in Spanish 3 honors, so I am learning in school, but I want to practice communicating in the language and I don't have much opportunity to do that outside of a 40-minute class each day. I would totally try to translate this introduction into Spanish, but I don't think I'd get very far. xD I'm not confident in my abilities at all. I do hope to learn a lot from this forum, though!

(If you want to reply in both Spanish and English [if you can], that would be great!)

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Originally Posted by Seasonal (Post 143685)

Hey Sarah, nice to meet you. I speak native Spanish. If there's anything I can do, you can talk to me! :D
A challenge for you: try to translate your introduction and we will help you to correct it. :D Surely there are a lot of things you know!

¡Bienvenida a los foros, Sarah!
Welcome to the forums, Sarah!

Intenta el desafío que Ana María te ha dado.

¡Hola! Me llamo Sarah. Encontré este foro en Google y decedé unir porque quiero ser fluido en español. Estoy en espaõl tres de honores, así estoy aprendiendo en la escuela, pero quiero practicar comunicación en el languae y no tengo muchos oportunidades con un clase de 40 minutos.

Well, I tried! :lol: I would appreciate if you could point out my mistakes.

¡Gracias, Rusty! :)

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Originally Posted by Seasonal (Post 143685)

Nuevo aquí!

Hola! Mi nombre es Sarah. Encontré este foro en Google y decidí unirme porque me encantaría algún día llegar a ser fluido en español. Actualmente estoy en español 3 honores, así que estoy aprendiendo en la escuela, pero quiero practicar la comunicación en la lengua y no tengo muchas oportunidades de hacerlo fuera de una clase de 40 minutos cada día. Me gustaría tratar de traducir esta introducción en español, pero no creo que yo llegara muy lejos. xD No estoy confiado en mis habilidades en absoluto. Espero aprender mucho de este foro, sin embargo!

(Si desea responder en español y en inglés [si es posible], eso sería genial!)

Hola Sarah. Me llamo Villa. Bienvenida al foro.

to be fluent (in a language) = dominar el idioma, hablar con fluidez (o con soltura)

fluido, adj. Adjectives must agree in gender with the person (although this particular word shouldn't be used in this case).
confiado, adj.

¡sin embargo!

Your try was very good. Keep on writing. :)

Apart from the corrections Rusty has offered to the previous proposal to translate your paragraph, there are a few other errors in it, so here are some suggestions for you to check and see for yourself what you can fix in your own text: :)

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Originally Posted by Seasonal (Post 143694)

¡Hola! Me llamo Sarah. Encontré este foro en Google y decedé (Check conjugation) unir (Use the pronominal form: "unirse") porque quiero ser fluido (As Rusty said in the previous post, "ser fluido" shouldn't be used here, because it applies to "running things", like a river, vehicle traffic, or so. Check the proposed expression) en español. Estoy en espaõl (Check spelling) tres (Since it's the name of the subject, the number is preferred) de honores (If this refers to the difference between taking a regular course and an intensive one, using the word "honores" is unclear, so I suggest you to use "intensivo"; otherwise, a longer explanation should be given so your reader can understand better), así estoy aprendiendo en la escuela, pero quiero practicar comunicación en el languae (Check spelling) y no tengo muchos oportunidades (Check gender agreement) con un clase (check gender agreement) de 40 minutos.

Well, I tried! :lol: I would appreciate if you could point out my mistakes.

¡Gracias, Rusty! :)

In addition to the changes suggested, there is one additional stylistic issue that you should be aware of. The present progressive (estoy aprendiendo), although used, is less common in Spanish than it is in English, In many cases Spanish speakers replace the somewhat cumbersome present progressive with the simple present tense.

Welcome.

Poli is right, but I think in this case it works well because learning is an ongoing process that is happening during this period of time. :)