Help with my Spanish Study Guide

[Tabobo]

I need help answering these questions. Its looks long ,but it is only 11 questions. Thank you very much people.

1. Buenos dias. Como te ________(llamar)? Yo me _______(llamar-ir)_______(tu nombre). Yo______(caminar-descansar) a la escuela todos los dias. En la escuela me________(encontrar) con mis amigos. Mis amigos se_______(llamar-cansar) Alberto y Juana. Ellos _________(ser-estar) amables. Ellos______(preferir-gustar) estudiar mas que________(descansar). Pero despues de estudiar mucho, a ellos les ________(gustar-querer) bailar y cantar. Te _________(gustar) las canciones mexicanas?

2. Yo siempre______(dormir) en el ________(avion-equipaje)?

3. En la escuela, Alberto______(almorzar) con sus_______(aduanas-amigos).

4. Que________(hacer-costar) cuando no _________(entender-perder) el español?

5. ________(ser-estar) en casa cuando estudio el español.

6. Veronica_______(ser-estar) feliz porque se________(graduar) de la secundaria.

7. Donde__________(ir-hacer) ayer con las maletas?

8. _________(Almorzar-Sacar) con mi familia en la ________(silla-aerolinea.)

9. Las hermanas Ochoa_________(ver-escribir) sus primas en el _______(seguridad-aeropuerto) antes de viajar.

10. __________ (Cual-Que) es tu color favorito?

11. _____ (Cuantos-Cuantas) clases tienes esta ______(semana-dia)?

[Rusty]

Welcome to the forums!
Here we don't do your homework for you. Please fill in all the blanks. Then ask us how you did. If any are wrong, we'll help you figure out why.

There's an 'Accents' pull-down menu above the text input area. In it you'll find all the special characters you need to write Spanish.

In case you're unaware, there's a dictionary and a verb conjugator available on this site, as well as a translator, to help you.

[Tabobo]

But it isn't homework. My mom said that I should come online and see what I can find.

[Rusty]

What would be the purpose of us just giving you the answers? What would you learn? Are you trying to learn Spanish?

[Tabobo]

Ok. I am in Spanish 2 in high school. Im a sophmore. I passed Spanish 1, but my teacher LITERALLY did NOT teach us anything. The only thing we did in that class was posters and stuff. I did not learn anything. Well at least the teacher got fired. This is really what I need help on. I do want to learn Spanish, but my teacher said this is due tomorrow to what we have learned from Spanish 1, but the problem is that me and my Spanish 1 class did not learn anything. So I really did not want to fail the first assignment.

[CrOtALiTo]

I'm sorry for that I will telling you.

We can't help you with your homework, already exist rules in the forums what the goal of each user is we can do our homework as learning.

The beats of each one is important.
I'm sorry.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

Sorry to say this, but you won't learn anything by having your homework solved by someone else. You should rather talk to your new teacher and get some extra lessons first. We can only help you if you have specific questions on what you have already studied.

[Rusty]

Don't fret. Try the first sentence. We are here to help you to learn the material.

What do you understand in the first sentence?

[Tabobo]

Well, in the first sentence, I think that they are doing some kind of greeting. Maybe telling each other their names.

[Rusty]

Good job. That actually covers three sentences. Now, using the 'Accents' box I mentioned above, write out those three sentences with the blanks filled in. You'll need to know how to conjugate the verb llamarse. The textbook helped you by already providing the correct reflexive pronouns (te and me). The 'se' part of a reflexive verb is removed when it is conjugated. Deciding which reflexive pronoun to use is based on which person the subject represents. Once decided, the pronoun is placed in front of the conjugated verb. It's that simple. All that's left for you to do is conjugate for the correct person in the present tense. The verb conjugator in this site is accessed in the upper left-hand corner. The menu initially contains 'Dictionary', but you can change it to 'Conjugations'. Then type in llamar. Which person do you think belongs in the second sentence, where the book has already given you the correct reflexive pronoun (te)? How about the third sentence (book says the correct pronoun is me)?

[CrOtALiTo]

Can I help him Rusty?

[Rusty]

Perhaps, but I think that depends on how much coaching he needs.

[Tabobo]

The third sentence talks about a family member or brother right?

[Rusty]

The first exercise contains several sentences. The third one starts with 'Yo me'. Is that the one you're asking about?

[Tabobo]

Oops I was talking about the fourth sentence. I am not to sure about the third. I think escuela means school and that dias is today I think.

[Rusty]

Correct, escuela means school. However, 'today' isn't quite right for the other word.
Does the original contain accents over some of the vowels? When you write the sentences, make sure those accents are included. It's very important to use the accents. That's why I mentioned the 'Accents' pull-down menu. When you write the three sentences, make sure you try to put in all the special characters, including the upside-down question mark. That's also important.

[Tabobo]

What do you mean if the original has accents? And also, how would conjugate them into the right 'format'?

[Rusty]

What you've written in your first post contains no accents over the vowels, as appropriate. I'm wondering if the original you copied the exercises from has them.

To conjugate a verb you need to know who the subject is. First of all, determine whether the subject is a singular noun or a plural noun. There are three persons in Spanish (just as there are in English), and each person has a singular and a plural form. If the subject is the speaker (I, in English), this is the first person. In a conjugation chart, the 1st person is listed first. Sometimes the plural form of the 1st person (we, in English) is written to its right. In the 'Conjugations' page I mentioned earlier, the plural persons follow the singular persons, so the 1st person plural conjugation is the fourth entry.
For example, have a look at the verb is llamar. The first conjugation chart is for the present tense. The six persons appear in the chart (the first three are the 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-person singular entries; the next three are the 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-person plural entries). So, if you want the 1st-person singular conjugation for llamar, it is (yo) llamo and the 1st person plural conjugation is (nosotros) llamamos.

Notice that each conjugation has two parts. The first part, which I wrote in parentheses above, is a subject pronoun. Yo means I. Tú means you (informal usage). Él means he; ella means she; usted means you (formal usage). The other subject pronouns are the plural forms (nosotros (we), vosotros (ye, informal), ellos (they), ellas (they (all female)), ustedes (you, formal)).

I mentioned that the book was helping you out by giving you the reflexive pronouns. Llamarse is a reflexive verb. Llamar is not. Type in llamarse in the 'Conjugations' field and check out what changed.
There are now three parts for each conjugation. The additional piece is the reflexive pronoun that goes with each person you just learned.

The book gave you 'te' in the second sentence. So, look for that reflexive pronoun. When you find it, you'll be looking at the conjugated verb that you need for the present tense when the subject is a singular 2nd person (using a familiar (informal) address). Now find the conjugation for the other sentence (the book gave you 'me' as the reflexive pronoun).

Now, armed with the correct conjugations, you can write the second and third sentences. You can omit the subject pronouns because the reflexive pronouns and the verb endings already tell us all we need to know about the person (the subject).

[Tabobo]

SWEET! TYVM! This has really helped me. Thank you for not giving me answers actually, helping me in the long run.

[Rusty]

I just added some more information. When you've digested it all, write out the first three sentences and get some more feedback.