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| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5230 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 161 of 319 11 January 2014 at 12:48pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
[...] Vivo en la Columbia Británica, en Canadá, [...] estudio español en la escuela [...] pero sólo hace un año que empec é a estudiar en casa. [...] ver películas, y escuchar música en español. La única persona con quien puedo practicar el español hablado es [...] Tal vez podamos organizar reuniones (<- This is feminine!) [...] Además [...] Últimamente no tengo tiempo de hacer [...] hay mucho que hacer en la escuela. [...] escribir puntuación invertida [...] 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5230 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 162 of 319 11 January 2014 at 12:57pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
[...] Cuando estaba en secundaria [...] como investigador de narcóticos. Por desgracia no me encuentro [...] quizá sea bueno en vista de que tendrían problemas por abuso de drogas [...] queremos mudarnos de casa a otro sitio. Buscaremos un lugar [...] donde podamos encontrar empleos más relacionados con nuestros estudios. [...] Hace dos semanas que empecé a estudiar español de nuevo. Hace tres años trabajé en un restaurante méxicano y hablaba un poco de español. Pero no lo he estudiado en serio desde hace nueve años... A finales de febrero voy a viajar con mi novia a Puerto Rico para disfrutar del calor y la oportunidad de practicar mi español. Ésa es mi primera [...] Edited by mrwarper on 16 January 2014 at 12:35pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5539 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 163 of 319 11 January 2014 at 5:14pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Thanks to LeadZeppelin for suggesting the format change. That definitely makes it much
easier (especially for those who didn't write the original text) to understand what was corrected! Thanks for all the corrections, mrwarper. Can I assume my entry was ok due to a lack of posted corrrections? (Then again, I spent enough time clarifying things at WordReference before posting, that it wouldn't surprise me if I'd managed to stamp out most, if not all, of the mistakes in advance. That's actually why I switched back to English fairly early in the post since I wasn't just generating that Spanish on the fly, but verifying certain phrasings as I went for anything I wasn't very familiar with already, so it took me a decent while to post that. It's something I've always tended to do with Korean as well, though I do that less now than I did originally and mostly just post from my head in Korean unless I'm really unsure about a phrase.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5960 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 164 of 319 11 January 2014 at 8:09pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Wow, you folks are on fire!
Excellent start, very useful suggestion of links and a godfather very generous with his time and his extremely detailed and helpful language corrections and explanations (and many thanks mrwarper for advising of my filled inbox!) This log bears a considerable potential for being a real resource to the community beyond just your team (so I will continue lurking here and learning!) Edited by Spanky on 12 January 2014 at 2:45am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| MithradatesG Newbie United States Joined 4279 days ago 30 posts - 36 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, French, Armenian, Turkish, Italian | Message 165 of 319 12 January 2014 at 2:55am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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@mrwarper,
Thanks so much! It's very useful to see all these corrections, not just for my own mistakes, but for others' as well since they're mistakes I'd be likely to make! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5230 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 166 of 319 12 January 2014 at 12:17pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I'd say that lack of corrections was more due to a lack of Spanish in your entry :) You probably meant to write "sólo" in your entry but a spelling reform affecting that is in the pipeline so I'd prefer to leave any hair-splitting for further down the road, or clarifications on request. I'm curious about this, though:
"Después" should have a tilde on it, but... Not without great success? Congratulations then! ;) Edited by mrwarper on 12 January 2014 at 2:54pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5539 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 167 of 319 12 January 2014 at 5:02pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Point taken. Perhaps it would be better to generate a greater quantity of possibly
incorrect Spanish than such a small amount of heavily refined Spanish. Hmmm...solo seems to lack an accent on WordReference's dictionary, so perhaps that word is in a bit of limbo right now. Después I missed the accent mark for, though honestly I didn't look up either of those words and just typed them from memory (and since I've mostly heard después in spoken form, I'm not sure it occurred to me that it had an accent mark, though it in retrospect it would need one to be pronounced the way it is). The "no sin" was a side-effect of revising that sentence multiple times (which happens to me quite often in English as well) then glossing over that part when proofreading it afterward. The "no" was left over from a different wording and should not have been there. Oops. :) Edited by Warp3 on 12 January 2014 at 5:03pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5230 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 168 of 319 13 January 2014 at 2:19am | IP Logged | ||||||||
If you ask me, everyone should find their own balance between producing stuff that is not completely under control so corrections are possible (and a help to improve), and something that will generate too many of them, thus saturating the learner. This balance must be found both in the quantity and level of the language to be used.
Well, our 'accent' system is highly logical and quite minimalistic, I think, meaning that we'd have more accents with any other set of rules. The problem with "sólo" is, there's no orthographical reason for it to carry one -- it used to appear just to differentiate between solo meaning "alone" and "only", but this is intended to be deprecated by the Royal Academy. Those who know me know I like illustrating how this can often be non-trivial with the example "practico sexo solo por las mañanas", while it apparently makes no difference for those in the Academy...
I was pretty sure it was the very well known Re-typo effect in action: No typos exist in the original wording nor in the brand new one you just thought of when proof-reading, and then you end up writing like a complete idiot. Happens all the time, regardless of language, yes. But you asked for corrections :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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