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Me tomé la mañana libre del trabajo.
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Oh sorry. My correction was wrong. You mean you have one morning every week and you took that time for your medical check-up, right?
What I corrected says you took the morning off, but under normal conditions you would have had to work.
"Tomé
mi mañana libre del trabajo" is the right expression.
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Esta mañana, dormí hasta un poco tarde. Me desperté como a las seis menos cuarto. Me encanté dormir hasta un poco tarde.
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"Hasta" doesn't let "un poco tarde" sound right (but "hasta muy tarde" sounds good). "Hasta tarde" or "hasta más tarde" (
as it had been already suggested) is enough to say you didn't wake up so early.
• With the “encantar”, you said “past here”. Aren´t both preterit AND imperfect considered “past”?
-- No, I didn't. I asked: <<
Me encantaba a (no preposition and you "used to like to" or you like to?) dormir
un poco tarde (same as before).>>
When assuming you do like waking up late whenever you can, the right conjugation is in present. If you only liked it this morning, then it needs a past, but that's not the right person to conjugate. You don't like yourself, but the fact of waking up late.
Yes, both express past actions, but sorry, I didn't have that much time and I expected "simple past" would be understood.
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Como a las siete, estaba leyendo en la cama cuando sonó el teléfono. Era una de mis colegas. Ella había dormido hasta demasiado tarde (now too much emphasis here: either "había dormido hasta muy tarde" or "se levantó demasiado tarde") y se fue preocupada. Ella me preguntó ("tomar su primera clase" is a favor, not a question. "Preguntar" is only for questions) tomar su primera clase si era tarde a trabajo (wrong wording. Spanish here needs a verb of movement, very far away from static "to be". Try "llegar al trabajo". Be careful though: you might be confusing "a trabajar" and "al trabajo". The first one is an action, the second one is a place and it needs an article). (Generalmente, estoy libre durante el período de la primera clase.) Ella se sentía mal por llamarme temprano en mi mañana libre. Pues (Wrong linking word. Try the simplest one that expresses the slight contradiction between her calling and the fact that you weren't bothered. "Pues" here sounds unkind, since it suggests that you didn't care at all about her being late for work and her asking you for a favor.), no me importó. Ya me estaba despertado (one more I missed. I think there is some explanation given for a similar sentence you've made before, but since I can't look it up and can't give you a hint, you can choose between two right options: "Ya me había despertado" / "Ya estaba despierta". .
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• Again, how do I know that it’s “amable tarjeta” and not “tarjeta amable”? “Buena concinera” and not “cocinera buena”? “Buenas personas” and not “personas buenas”? I simply do not understand when the adjective goes before vs. after the word being modified.
-- Adjectives like "bueno", "nuevo", "grande", etc., tend to take their place before the noun, maybe because they're short and it's more euphonic. And as I said, it's also for reasons of emphasis, because what you want to state clearly is that your colleagues are "good persons", "good cooks", etc.
As for "amable", it could have been placed after the noun, but emphasis is rather set on how kind the card was.
You'll get to know over time, so maybe you just have to get used to being told where adjectives sound better, until you start doing it automatically.
• What is the difference between "una cita" and "un cito"?
-- "Un cito" is not Spanish.
• The last sentence … I was trying to use colorful language there. In English, it would have been somewhat “tongue in cheek” to say that the cookies were gone in only a few moments. If I were to say “Comí las galletas en pocos momentos…” wouldn’t be at all colorful. What would be so?
-- I wonder about color, but "
me comí las galletas en un momento" is not a dull sentence at all if that's what worries you. It's correct, it's clear and one knows you did like the cookies.
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Las galletas fueron comidas en pocos momentos.....
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The sentence structure is correct, but for a non-English speaker, the meaning can be unclear. Ugliness is that it's English disguised in Spanish words.
Many times it has been stated in these forums that this sort of passive voice in Spanish rarely sounds right, and we use it much less than English speakers do, whatever colourful it may be. 
If you want to make a sentence with the cookies as the subject, try verbs like "desaparecer", "irse", "volar", all of them suggesting they didn't last long. If the subject is you, "color" can be introduced with exaggerated verbs like "devorar", "acabar (con)", "liquidar"...
Un ensayo: "Una colega y galletas!"
(agreement here)!
