Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4144 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog
| Message 105 of 319 04 January 2014 at 4:33pm | IP Logged |
¡Hola Lobos!
Well, 2014 is well under way! Since this is my first TAC, I'm not quite sure what to expect. Will this thread stay active
throughout the year? Or will all interactions move to our individual logs? Will there be team challenges?
Hope the Spanish-learning is going well for everyone!
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JIK Diglot Groupie Bahrain Joined 4102 days ago 58 posts - 58 votes Speaks: Estonian, English* Studies: Spanish, German
| Message 106 of 319 04 January 2014 at 4:58pm | IP Logged |
I was sort of wondering the same thing. I have no experience with TAC either...
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Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5535 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese
| Message 107 of 319 04 January 2014 at 5:15pm | IP Logged |
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¡Ojalá que sí! Me parece que esos serían muy beneficiosos.
Edited by Warp3 on 04 January 2014 at 5:23pm
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tomgosse Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3992 days ago 90 posts - 143 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French
| Message 108 of 319 04 January 2014 at 6:48pm | IP Logged |
¡Hola amigos!
If it is not to late, I would like to sign up for Team Lobo. My log is at
Tom's Log
I hope I'm posting this in the right place because this is my first attempt at this.
Gracias,
Tomás José
Edited by tomgosse on 04 January 2014 at 10:52pm
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mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5226 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese
| Message 109 of 319 04 January 2014 at 8:08pm | IP Logged |
Warp3 wrote:
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One of the first English grammar bits I was taught is that having sentence subjects is mandatory, which apparently results in L1 interference here.
Let me recast this with a minimal change that makes it sound much better: "Me parece que serían muy beneficiosos."
I figure you meant to say "those", alluding to the team challenges. That's OK but it sounds like you were trying to somehow say they are different from other challenges, which would need to appear in context for the distinction to make sense. There's no context, though, so the original sounds a bit off.
Another minimal alternative might be "Me parece eso que sería muy beneficioso.", maybe easier for English speakers because it still uses an explicit subject, "that, what she said", but please note that it is in the singular, etc.
Hope this helps, and please don't hesitate to debate my corrections, nor to tell me if I'm being too heavy-handed or anything :)
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Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5535 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese
| Message 110 of 319 04 January 2014 at 9:18pm | IP Logged |
You are correct. I did not mean to imply emphasis or contrast, so that "esos" was
unneeded there. I didn't even notice I had done that until you pointed it out (and I'm usually
pretty good about remembering to drop unnecessary pronouns since both Spanish and
Korean use them very sparingly). Thanks and corrections are always welcome. :)
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Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5395 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 111 of 319 05 January 2014 at 4:03pm | IP Logged |
Stelle wrote:
Well, 2014 is well under way! Since this is my first TAC, I'm not quite sure what to expect. Will this thread stay active
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That depends - every team is different. I would love to do little mini-challenges. Last year, on Team Pax, we did a few. Besides the obvious introductions, we did some favorite songs, regional cuisine, and something else I forgot. I think a few of the other teams last year had more activity with that sort of thing. (If anyone wants to check out the other team threads for ideas, that would be cool. I'm short on time at the moment. Well, most moments. LOL)
Please, please, please. I am super busy, and sometimes HTLAL is not a priority. If you have an idea for a challenge or anything, post it!
We can start with introductions. Some of us are relatively new around here, some of us have been around for a really long time. Tell us about yourself, your experience with Spanish, why you're studying it, what your goals are, etc. If you're a beginner, just write a sentence or two in Spanish. You can do the rest in English if you need to. :)
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Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5395 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 112 of 319 05 January 2014 at 4:13pm | IP Logged |
Me llamo Kerrie, y vivo en los estados unidos.
Vivo en el estado de Michigan. En el invierno, nieva mucho. Hoy y mañana, supone nevar más de 14 pulgadas. Es horrible. Y hace mucho frío. Amargo frío. Odio el invierno aquí.
Tengo 38 años, y soy madre de gemelas quienes tienen once años. Trabajo mucho en una fábrica, y no tengo el tiempo que quería para estudiar los idiomas. Pero así es la vida, ¿no?
He estudio español en high school y también en universidad. Pero nunca lo he aprendido bien, y quiero aprenderlo mejor. Ahora, puedo leer bastante bien, pero no puedo conversar ni escribir tan bueno.
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