Spanish Help!!

RDalton84
RDalton84 Posts: 207
edited December 2024 in Chit-Chat
I have my oral exam for my spanish class tonight and I am trying to write some stuff ahead of time so I'll have an idea of what I am saying but I want to make sure that what I am writing makes sense...anyone out there speak fluent spanish that would be so kind as to help me??? PLEASE!! lol thank you!

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  • warmachinejt
    warmachinejt Posts: 2,162 Member
    please continue...
  • Peep_chic
    Peep_chic Posts: 369 Member
    sure. Is it a lot to read?
  • RDalton84
    RDalton84 Posts: 207
    This is what I have so far...we were given 5 topics and we don't know which topic we will have to discuss until class tonight..

    Topic 1: Discuss families of the past and families of today. What characteristics did they have? How are they similar, how are they differet.

    Las familias del pasado no tuvieron moviles, televisores, o computadores. Las fueron mas conservadores y tradicionales. Sus vidas fueron mas sincillos.

    Las familias de hoy tienen muchos electronicas. Las tienen moviles, muchos televisores en sus casas, y computadores. Algunas familias son conservadores y algunas familias son liberales. Las familias de hoy vidas mueven muy rapido.

    PS- I know I left off a bunch of accents, didn't feel like messing with the ALT key to put them in lol so does that sound about right or did I completely butcher it?
  • nevertoolate2
    nevertoolate2 Posts: 309 Member
    bump - just started learning Spanish - in US do you go for Spanish or Latin American Spanish?
  • Peep_chic
    Peep_chic Posts: 369 Member
    This is what I have so far...we were given 5 topics and we don't know which topic we will have to discuss until class tonight..

    Topic 1: Discuss families of the past and families of today. What characteristics did they have? How are they similar, how are they differet.

    Las familias del pasado no tuvieron moviles, televisores, o computadores. Las fueron mas conservadores y tradicionales. Sus vidas fueron mas sincillos.

    Las familias de hoy tienen muchos electronicas. Las tienen moviles, muchos televisores en sus casas, y computadores. Algunas familias son conservadores y algunas familias son liberales. Las familias de hoy vidas mueven muy rapido.

    PS- I know I left off a bunch of accents, didn't feel like messing with the ALT key to put them in lol so does that sound about right or did I completely butcher it?

    moviles? do you mean mobile phones?
  • RDalton84
    RDalton84 Posts: 207
    This is what I have so far...we were given 5 topics and we don't know which topic we will have to discuss until class tonight..

    Topic 1: Discuss families of the past and families of today. What characteristics did they have? How are they similar, how are they differet.

    Las familias del pasado no tuvieron moviles, televisores, o computadores. Las fueron mas conservadores y tradicionales. Sus vidas fueron mas sincillos.

    Las familias de hoy tienen muchos electronicas. Las tienen moviles, muchos televisores en sus casas, y computadores. Algunas familias son conservadores y algunas familias son liberales. Las familias de hoy vidas mueven muy rapido.

    PS- I know I left off a bunch of accents, didn't feel like messing with the ALT key to put them in lol so does that sound about right or did I completely butcher it?

    moviles? do you mean mobile phones?

    yes lol is that what you normally use? Thats the word we learned in our text book
  • macpatti
    macpatti Posts: 4,280 Member
    What level of Spanish is this? Your answers seem "okay" for a level Spanish 1 high school course. I live in Texas, though, so the expectations may be a little higher here.
  • RDalton84
    RDalton84 Posts: 207
    bump - just started learning Spanish - in US do you go for Spanish or Latin American Spanish?

    Latin America, we did not have to learn any of the words or conjugations that they use in Spain
  • RDalton84
    RDalton84 Posts: 207
    What level of Spanish is this? Your answers seem "okay" for a level Spanish 1 high school course. I live in Texas, though, so the expectations may be a little higher here.

    Spanish 1 for community college, which is almost identical to the spanish 1 class I took in HS. lol I am in Kansas...
  • macpatti
    macpatti Posts: 4,280 Member
    :smile:
    yes lol is that what you normally use? Thats the word we learned in our text book
    In converstational Spanish, I wouldn't use that word for cell phones. Does the teacher want text book Spanish or conversational Spanish (don't even get me started on Tex-Mex Spanish)!
  • RDalton84
    RDalton84 Posts: 207
    :smile:
    yes lol is that what you normally use? Thats the word we learned in our text book
    In converstational Spanish, I wouldn't use that word for cell phones. Does the teacher want text book Spanish or conversational Spanish (don't even get me started on Tex-Mex Spanish)!

    well she only wants us to use vocab that we learned this semester
  • warmachinejt
    warmachinejt Posts: 2,162 Member
    This is what I have so far...we were given 5 topics and we don't know which topic we will have to discuss until class tonight..

    Topic 1: Discuss families of the past and families of today. What characteristics did they have? How are they similar, how are they differet.

    Las familias del pasado no tuvieron moviles (celulares), televisores, o computadores. Las fueron (omit Las and fueron) "Eran" mas conservadores y tradicionales. Sus vidas fueron mas sincillos. (omit fueron and add "eran mas sencillas"

    Las familias de hoy tienen muchos electronicas (electrodomesticos?). Las tienen moviles, muchos televisores en sus casas, y computadores (omit sentence put "Muchas tienen multiples televisores computadores y celulares. Algunas familias son conservadore(a)s y algunas familias son liberales. Las familias de hoy vidas mueven muy rapido. (La vida de hoy en dia es muy apurada/asarada?)

    PS- I know I left off a bunch of accents, didn't feel like messing with the ALT key to put them in lol so does that sound about right or did I completely butcher it?
    sorry if it sounds off but i'm Colombian and my spanish is different from what you're used to.
  • Peep_chic
    Peep_chic Posts: 369 Member
    Where I come from PR WE say celulares...use either I guess
    This is what I have so far...we were given 5 topics and we don't know which topic we will have to discuss until class tonight..

    Topic 1: Discuss families of the past and families of today. What characteristics did they have? How are they similar, how are they differet.

    Las familias del pasado no tuvieron moviles, televisores, o computadores. Las fueron mas conservadores y tradicionales. Sus vidas fueron mas sincillos.

    Las familias de hoy tienen muchos electronicas. Las tienen moviles, muchos televisores en sus casas, y computadores. Algunas familias son conservadores y algunas familias son liberales. Las familias de hoy vidas mueven muy rapido.

    PS- I know I left off a bunch of accents, didn't feel like messing with the ALT key to put them in lol so does that sound about right or did I completely butcher it?

    Las familias del pasado no tuvieron CELULARES, televisores, o computadorAs. Las FAMILIAS ERAN mas conservadorAs y tradicionales. Sus vidas fueron mas sEncillAs. Las familias de hoy tienen muchos electronicOs. Tienen moviles, muchos televisores en sus casas, y computadorAs. Algunas familias son conservadores y algunas familias son liberales. Las familias de hoy VIVEN vidas MOVIENDOSE muy rapido.
  • kapeluza
    kapeluza Posts: 3,434 Member
    "Las familias del pasado no tuvieron moviles, televisores, o computadores. Las fueron mas conservadores y tradicionales. Sus vidas fueron mas sincillos.

    Las familias de hoy tienen muchos electronicas. Las tienen moviles, muchos televisores en sus casas, y computadores. Algunas familias son conservadores y algunas familias son liberales. Las familias de hoy vidas mueven muy rapido. "

    Las familias del pasado fueron gente conservada y tradicional que llevaban vidas sencillas. No tuvieron celulares, televisores, ó computadoras.

    En cambio, las familias de hoy utilizan muchos electronicos como parte de sus vidas. Algunos ejemplos de estos electronicos son la computadora, el televisor, y el telefono celular. Tambien se puede ver que las familias de hoy aun son conservativas pero algunas familias son liberales y han perdido la tradición. Las familias de hoy suelen llevar vidas aceleradas y de paso rapido.
  • RDalton84
    RDalton84 Posts: 207
    Thank you all so much for your help!! :)
  • Peep_chic
    Peep_chic Posts: 369 Member
    FAMILIAS is a "female" word & thats why you use conservadorAs. you can replace las familias with Eran so you dont repeat it so much. you can say all of it it in different ways but you should keep the main vocabulary that your teacher gave you so it doesnt look like someone else did it.
  • mrodriguez81
    mrodriguez81 Posts: 61 Member
    This is what I have so far...we were given 5 topics and we don't know which topic we will have to discuss until class tonight..

    Topic 1: Discuss families of the past and families of today. What characteristics did they have? How are they similar, how are they differet.

    Las familias del pasado no tuvieron moviles (celulares), televisores, o computadores. Las fueron (omit Las and fueron) "Eran" mas conservadores y tradicionales. Sus vidas fueron mas sincillos. (omit fueron and add "eran mas sencillas"

    Las familias de hoy tienen muchos electronicas (electrodomesticos?). Las tienen moviles, muchos televisores en sus casas, y computadores (omit sentence put "Muchas tienen multiples televisores computadores y celulares. Algunas familias son conservadore(a)s y algunas familias son liberales. Las familias de hoy vidas mueven muy rapido. (La vida de hoy en dia es muy apurada/asarada?)

    PS- I know I left off a bunch of accents, didn't feel like messing with the ALT key to put them in lol so does that sound about right or did I completely butcher it?
    sorry if it sounds off but i'm Colombian and my spanish is different from what you're used to.

    I go with this one but I would use apurada at the end. I'm Mexican and haven't heard asarado but it doesn't mean it's wrong. GL!
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