Nueva introducción

[ElDanés]

I haven't been using my Spanish very much, so I thought I would write a new introduction - in Spanish. I would like if you would correct my errors, and comment on my Spanish.

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Este es mi introducción nueva - en español.

Soy desde Dinamarca, pero nacía en Finlandia - mudamos a la Dinamarca cuando fui dos. Hablo danés fluentemente, bueno inglés, y pico finlandés y alemán. Me inscribí a este foro practicar y usar mi español.

He estudiado español desde este agosto. Comencé estudiando español porque he comenzado leyendo sobre Mesoamérica y su cultura y historia. Especialmente los mayas me interesa y sus idiomas. También he considerado sobre viajando por allí cuando he acabando la escuela. Hasta ya he estudiado en mi casa, solo, pero comenzaré estudiando en mi escuela, después la Navidad.

¡Correcciones son muy bienvenido, gracias!

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It took me quite some time to write it, about twenty minutes, and some use of my dictionaries, but I believe it's a good practice anyway. I've marked parts of the text which I'm very unsure about with a blue color.

[poli]

Originally Posted by ElDanés

I haven't been using my Spanish very much, so I thought I would write a new introduction - in Spanish. I would like if you would correct my errors, and comment on my Spanish.

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Este es mi introducción nueva - en español.

Soy de Dinamarca, pero nací en Finlandia - mudamos a la Dinamarca cuando tenía dos años. Hablo danés fluidamente, inglés bien, y poco finlandés y alemán. Me inscribí a este foro para practicar y usar mi español.

He estudiado español desde este agosto. Comencé a estudiar español porque he comenzado a leer sobre Mesoamérica y su cultura y historia. Especialmente los mayas me interesa y sus idiomas. También he considerado viajar allí cuando he acabo mis estudios en la escuela. Hasta ahora he estudiado en mi casa, solo, pero comenzaré a estudiar en mi escuela, después la Navidad.

¡Correcciones son muy bienvenidos, gracias!(Invito sus correcciones. Gracias sounds better)

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It took me quite some time to write it, about twenty minutes, and some use of my dictionaries, but I believe it's a good practice anyway. I've marked parts of the text which I'm very unsure about with a blue color.

You wrote very clearly. Although there were errors, anyone would understand you.
For someone who is studying on their own, you have done well.
If you get to Mexico City, be sure to visit to Museum of Anthropology. There you can compare the artifacts of the Meso-american empires.It's pretty interesting. Aztec sculptures can be terrifying.

[Rusty]

Coincido con Poli, you've done quite well!

In addition to the corrections made by Poli, here are a few more:

Originally Posted by ElDanés

... sobre Mesoamérica y su cultura e historia. Especialmente me interesan los mayas y sus idiomas. También he considerado viajar allí cuando he acabadomis estudios en la escuela.

It is also possible, and more common with length-of-time expressions, to use the hacer + que + present tense structure:
Hace dos meses que estudio español. = I've studied Spanish for two months.
Or the present tense + desde hace + time length structure:
Estudio español desde hace agosto. = I've studied Spanish since August.

[Elaina]

Felicidades! Lo has hecho muy bien. Claro había errores pero la idea era muy clara.

[CrOtALiTo]

Originally Posted by ElDanés

I haven't been using my Spanish very much, so I thought I would write a new introduction - in Spanish. I would like if you would correct my errors, and comment on my Spanish.

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Esta es mi nueva introduccíon en español.

Soy de Dinamarca, pero nací en Finlandia - nos mudamos a Dinamarca . Hablo danés fluentemente, igual inglés, y trato Finlandés y Alemán. Me inscribí a este foro para practicar y usar mi español.

He estudiado español desde Agosto. Comencé estudiando mi español porque he comenze a leer sobre Mesoamérica y la cultura. Me interezan especialmente los mayas y sus dialectos. También he considerado sobre viajar a Mexico cuando acabe la escuela. Hasta ya estoy estudiado [COLOR=Blue]en mi casa yo solo, pero comenzaré a estudiar en mi escuela, terminando el año nuevo..

¡Tus correcciones son bienvenidas gracias!

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It took me quite some time to write it, about twenty minutes, and some use of my dictionaries, but I believe it's a good practice anyway. I've marked parts of the text which I'm very unsure about with a blue color.

Danes, I will correct to you now, well it before that I will correct to you, I want to say some words, I took me the free of read your introduction above you and your learning in the school, well I tell you if you make mistakes but in really is good your text, I know that my English is not as good as you, but I don't delay twenty minutes writing this text for you, you try to be faster, or practice more with someone who knows Spanish, then when you have awfully practice and domain above your language, I affirm you that you will be happy.

I hope you don't mind with me.

[ElDanés]

Originally Posted by poli

You wrote very clearly. Although there were errors, anyone would understand you.
For someone who is studying on their own, you have done well.
If you get to Mexico City, be sure to visit to Museum of Anthropology. There you can compare the artifacts of the Meso-american empires.It's pretty interesting. Aztec sculptures can be terrifying.

Gracias, poli. ¡Agradezco su correcciones!
¿Ha estado en el museo tú mismo?

Originally Posted by Rusty

Coincido con Poli, you've done quite well!

Originally Posted by Rusty

It is also possible, and more common with length-of-time expressions, to use the hacer + que + present tense structure:
Hace dos meses que estudio español. = I've studied Spanish for two months.
Or the present tense + desde hace + time length structure:
Estudio español desde hace agosto. = I've studied Spanish since August.

Good tip. I remember I have read something about this before. I guess I should read up on it again. And thank you for the corrections!

Originally Posted by Elaina

Felicidades! Lo has hecho muy bien. Claro había errores pero la idea era muy clara.

¡Gracias, Elaina!

Originally Posted by CrOtALiTo

and your learning in the school,

I'm not having Spanish in school, or having any other kinds of professional teaching - yet. As I stated in my text, it will first start after Christmas - or actually, I just found out it will start today, so I'm sorry about the earlier misinformation. I'm excited about how it's going to be!

Originally Posted by CrOtALiTo

but I don't delay twenty minutes writing this text for you, you try to be faster,

This is the first longer text I'm writing, and I prefer to spend time on what I'm doing in order to try to make it better. I prefer going for the quality, and not the quantity. I'm sure you would do better with your English as well, if you spend some more time on writing your posts.

Originally Posted by CrOtALiTo

I hope you don't mind with me.

Of course not! It's always good to get some other opinions on a case, and other points of view.

[Tomisimo]

¡Muy bien hecho Danés! Tienes muy poco tiempo estudiando el español, y ya escribes muy bien.

[ElDanés]

¡Gracias, Tomísimo!

I had my first two lessons (2 x 45 minutes - the teacher was 15 minutes late though) of Spanish today. It was pretty simple though. They only taught us basic stuff like how to conjugate ser, hablar and visitar in present tense, and some few words like madre, padre, alemán, inglés, y, hermano, hermana, etc. I think it will continue on that stage for quite some time, as all the others had problems. But well, I've been studying it on my own for some while, so I just have to have a little patience.

[poli]

Be patient with your classmates. If you assist a friend in learning, it will reinforce what you have already learned and make you stronger and a better problem solver.

[Tomisimo]

Originally Posted by poli

Be patient with your classmates. If you assist a friend in learning, it will reinforce what you have already learned and make you stronger and a better problem solver.

I agree. Teaching is one of the best ways to learn and consolidate your knowledge.

[ElDanés]

Oh, I did maybe express myself wrong. I didn't mean I was impatience with my classmates, I just think it would be better if one could get teaching at different levels (that's why I mentioned the self-studying). But the school isn't very big - and I can easily live with how it is.

And I did try to help the girl I was set together with. I added some few extra words to her vocabulary, like sólo, familia, etc. and helped her with pronunciation. I know it's not much, but I'm pretty new myself, and so is she, so I think it's fine.

[CrOtALiTo]

Yes, I agree with you all, you be patient, if you learn a new words each day, you write the word in your notebook for that you don't forget it, then if you need to practice more your Spanish then you can to found some friends to needs help with the Spanish, then here you can help him as well, mostly the way to learn faster is that you teach your knowledge to other persons, you are wonderful because you can to learn all you want if you are very intelligent, and I'm sure that you are as intelligent.

[Tomisimo]

Originally Posted by ElDanés

Oh, I did maybe express myself wrong. I didn't mean I was impatience with my classmates, I just think it would be better if one could get teaching at different levels (that's why I mentioned the self-studying). But the school isn't very big - and I can easily live with how it is.

And I did try to help the girl I was set together with. I added some few extra words to her vocabulary, like sólo, familia, etc. and helped her with pronunciation. I know it's not much, but I'm pretty new myself, and so is she, so I think it's fine.

I think you're doing good. If you want to accelerate your learning, then try a bunch of extracurricular activities. See if you can get some Spanish TV on cable, and try to really understand what's going on. Read a newspaper or magazine in Spanish. A really neat activity I like is to buy a newspaper/magazine in Spanish (If you can't find one, the go to www.elpais.es and print out the main page). Now go to the very first story on the page and go to the very first paragraph. Your goal here is to understand every word and grammatical structure in that first paragraph. Look up words. Make sure you understand the tense/conjugation of every verb. etc.

[CrOtALiTo]

Yes, I agree with David, if you want to accelerate your learning, you watch movies or TV shows, your home on, but anyway you must try understand everything the words said for the singers, let me telling you as I made my learning faster, look, everyday I write something on this forums, or I speak with American people for telephone, and I try practice each word that I see for first time, then so I can learn faster, I have eleven months learning English alone, my brother stared teaching me English on his job, but he only taught me the basic of the English, and I try to figure each word taught me, then since that moment, I found the way of continue practice my English even though, I knew a little English in that moment, but with my endeavor, I continue my road in this word of the words, I saw movies in English, I saw news spook in English, I have chatted in chat rooms, and I arrived here, and I continue my learning, you try to hear music in Spanish, I can give you a counsel, you listen to music of Enrique Iglesias, or Alejandro Zans, their songs are very nice and you can understand them very well in each word of their music, well, you also can try chat with people in Spanish, you buy you a hand dictionary, and you write all your notes in your notebook that with the purpose of, you can check again your notes later, well I hope my endeavor of this post cans help you or at least it cans be of useful for you.

[ElDanés]

Originally Posted by Tomisimo

I think you're doing good. If you want to accelerate your learning, then try a bunch of extracurricular activities. See if you can get some Spanish TV on cable, and try to really understand what's going on. Read a newspaper or magazine in Spanish. A really neat activity I like is to buy a newspaper/magazine in Spanish (If you can't find one, the go to www.elpais.es and print out the main page). Now go to the very first story on the page and go to the very first paragraph. Your goal here is to understand every word and grammatical structure in that first paragraph. Look up words. Make sure you understand the tense/conjugation of every verb. etc.

I would love to watch some Spanish television, but unfortunately I'm not able to do so. Do you know if it's possible to watch any Spanish television online? I have tried reading newspapers, including El País, for now a while, but I don't feel like I'm advancing. I don't know if it's just me, but I don't think I'm doing any progress, although I really try. After I started having Spanish courses at school my vocabulary has increased a lot, so it has become easier for me to read newspapers, but I haven't felt like the newspapers alone have helped me. But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they do help me without I'm noticing it.

Originally Posted by CrOtALiTo

Yes, I agree with David, if you want to accelerate your learning, you watch movies or TV shows, your home on, but anyway you must try understand everything the words said for the singers, let me telling you as I made my learning faster, look, everyday I write something on this forums, or I speak with American people for telephone, and I try practice each word that I see for first time, then so I can learn faster, I have eleven months learning English alone, my brother stared teaching me English on his job, but he only taught me the basic of the English, and I try to figure each word taught me, then since that moment, I found the way of continue practice my English even though, I knew a little English in that moment, but with my endeavor, I continue my road in this word of the words, I saw movies in English, I saw news spook in English, I have chatted in chat rooms, and I arrived here, and I continue my learning, you try to hear music in Spanish, I can give you a counsel, you listen to music of Enrique Iglesias, or Alejandro Zans, their songs are very nice and you can understand them very well in each word of their music, well, you also can try chat with people in Spanish, you buy you a hand dictionary, and you write all your notes in your notebook that with the purpose of, you can check again your notes later, well I hope my endeavor of this post cans help you or at least it cans be of useful for you.

Your post is helpful. I like the idea of watching movies and listening to music, but I just think that watching a long movie in Spanish is a too big mouthful, at least at my current level. Do you know any TV-series with episodes lasting 20 minutes or something like that? I think that would be easier for me. The most optimal would of course be to know and talk to a native, but I haven't met anyone in real life, so this is not an option for me either...

[bmarquis124]

do you get the Telemundo channel?

[CrOtALiTo]

I don't know about some TV show, but if you find people speaker Spanish, you can find people in the chat rooms, or maybe you can read a lot news papers from Spain or Mexico, but anyway if you can't find people in the chat rooms, well, then you need to practice here in the forums, such I have learnt English during this year.

[ElDanés]

Unfortunately not, bmarquis124. The only channels I have are the two national channels of Denmark, and a third channel, since we changed to digital-TV - so no Spanish channels.

And yeah, true what you say, CrOtALiTo. I have decided to start reading the various Spanish newspapers more intensively and more often. Hopefully, that will help me out.

[Tomisimo]

Newspapers are great for learning vocabulary and grammar, but not so helpful for pronunciation.

[CrOtALiTo]

Yes, you keep it up with your learning.


You're welcome.