Spanish Class Homework(s) [Asignaciones]

[San Juan Capital]

Ahora, de tarea, quiero que todos se saluden mutuamente en español
(Now, as homework, I want all of you to introduce to each other and me in Spanish)

How to? Well, that's what follows:

Normal way to introduce yourself:

Hola, (nombre aquí), me llamo (nombre aquí)

Literally:

Hello, (name here), I am named (name here).

Really Means:

Hello, (name here), my name is (name here).

[San Juan Capital]

uhm... anyone? Anyways, notice the meaning of 'llamo' at both translations. Llamo really is a verb that has a miriad of translations, but this one is taken from the word that preceeds it (me= a word which makes the verb talk about yourself)

As a pronunctiation key:

Ola, (insert name) meh jamo (insert name).

[Girlsandboys]

Hola!Prof. San Juan, me liamo Girlsandboys.

How do you say girlsandboys in espanol?
How do you say ' How do you say?'

[San Juan Capital]

-well, it depends on the words you choose to use, but it could be Niñosyniñas, Chicosychicas, Chachosychachas*, Mujeresyhombres, Zachosyzachas*
-¿Cómo se dice----? ¿Cómo dices -----?

*Contractions of the words Muchacho (boy) and Muchacha (girl).

- Correction: llamo (verb: llamar; llamar= call, be named. Written: ll-a-m-a-r.)
-Small correction: This is the basic level, so this is really not that important:
Exclamation marks in Spanish start: (¡) and end the sentence or the idea, mostly, that is.
i.e.

¡Hola Girlsandboys, me llamo San Juan!

[San Juan Capital]

Seeing the low answering, I'm to continue now with numbers, and as an extra, currencies.

(Viendo la baja cantidad de respuestas, continuaré con números, y como adendo, monedas.)

Currencies of course, are of great importance in Modern times (just go to Economy class or study it in Social Sciences)... and are also part of the language, that including Spanish.

In Spanish, as in other languages, currencies get different names.

For instance: the US currencies:

Dollar is called dólar in standard Spanish, and is also named 'peso' in Puerto Rico

The quarter or 25 cents in official Spanish is translated as veinticinco centavos, but in Puerto Rico [and I will give a lot of the Puerto Rican names, for it's my Spanish] these are called pesetas .

The dime or 10 cents is officially translated as diez centavos. In Puerto Rico these are called either ficha, diez chavos, vellón de diez, etc...

The 5 cent is called officially cinco centavos. In Puerto Rico, as a constant, centavo is not used in favour of chavo. Therefore it may be cinco chavos. However, this also has it's name: the [vellón]

The cent is centavo or chavo. Also, it has been named perrita in PR.

The official currency of many Latin American countries is the peso, a name going back to the Spanish Imperial times. Every peso is divided into 100 centavos.

In Spain, the currency was the peseta, now changed in favour of the Euro. If you have 5 Euros, you have cinco euros. In Spain some people still will talk in terms of Peseta (around 7 pesetas per Euro...)

In the United Kingdom [el Reino Unido], they use the pound sterling, in Spanish: libra esterlina. It subdivisions now are a pound [una libra] per 100 pence [peniques]. A former subdivision was also the shilling [chelín]
In Japan [el Japón] they use the yen, also written in the same way in Spanish.
In China [la China] it is the yuán.
In Russia [Rusia], the rubble, el rublo.
In some other Latin American nations, the currency is the Quetzal, the Bolívar, the Colón, the Real...

I will not continue translating the other currencies, unless someone asks me for a translation, for these are the most used...

As a homework, I would like you to translate these costs:

$499,98=
¥114,78=
¢.19=
£570,9=

Reminder- Taco is a Spanish word, so no translation needed.

[Sinn Féin's Ireland]

Hola, San Juan Capital, me llamo Sinn.


I'm struggling with this latest homework. How do you write a decimal point in spanish? and is there no easier way of writing out the complex numbers, like instead of 499 written out longhand, can you not write 500 sin uno, or something similar. but you know, written? :S

[Io Way]

Hola, SJC, me llamo Io Way.
Comó está?

The pronounciation for llamo should be Yamo.
Americans would get it easier.

[Noyzistan]

Hola, San Juan, me llamo Nonoy.

@io, I believe some countries pronounce the double L as 'j', from reading SJ's Spanish lesson thread. It's just a matter of where you are from or where you are living, i guess.

[San Juan Capital]

well, it should be yamo, but then someone could read it in English, and say something like 'iamo'. If you are a native English speaker, consider /ll/ as somewhat as a English /j/.

Hola Sinn, un gusto conocerte (apleasure to meet you.

I'm struggling with this latest homework. How do you write a decimal point in spanish? and is there no easier way of writing out the complex numbers, like instead of 499 written out longhand, can you not write 500 sin uno, or something similar. but you know, written? :S

Well, a decimal point is written either with a comma (it is preferred lately [i.e. 299,75]). Comma is written coma. There's also the point, (i.e. 299.75). In these cases you say the number (doscientos noveinta y nueve) the decimal symbol (coma/punto) [comma/point], and the decimal number (setenta y cinco).

Also, Hola Io Way, y hola Nonoy.

Remember the second homework.

About the letters /y/, /ll/, /s/, /z/, /c/, and in some cases /j/ and /g/ and even /x/...
These letters present varied pronunciations. Again, don't panic. These pronunciations, although different, are noticeable and easily changeable in your mind with a bit of practice.
As a guide, most Latin America and Spain speak in a phenomenon called yeísmo, where /y/ and /ll/ sound almost equal, if not identical. This is not done however in some countries of the south of Latin America (like Argentina), where the sound takes a change nearer to a /ch/ and a /sh/.
As a rule, Latin Americans and people from the south of Spain will pronounce /s/, /c/, and /z/ almost, if not identical. This phenomenon is called seseo.
There's the inverse, called ceceo, where they pronounce it in what in English could be pronounced as a /th/. This is done in very few places.
In the rest of Spain there's a mix use of the sounds of /s/, /c/ and /z/.
About /j/ and /g/, these in Latin America are pronounced like an English /h/. In Spain again they are a bit rougher, like the /ch/ in German or Hebrew... it's a guttural sound (that's spelled like that, eh?)
The /x/ is the hardest one, but again, the general rule is to either pronounce it as either a /ks/ [Latin x] or as a /s/. As any rule, exceptions do appear, in this case, mostly in Mexico, where the /x/ still has its ancient sound of /j/. There are other pronunciations of the /x/, most of them regional and placed mostly at Mexico, so I won't push the /x/ pronunciations into you. In this case, I just want to emphasise that when talking of Mexican places, you have to remember the pronunciation of x there (like Oaxaca - pronounced something like 'Wa-ha-ka' or 'O-a-ha-ka' in English.)

Now, remember to do your homework. I would recommend you to bookmark this thread so you can keep it in a place to remember.

[San Juan Capital]

Post Data: remember to place the Spanish names of the currencies in the numbers you give!

[Kityan]

hola, san juan! me llamo kityan.

[San Juan Capital]

Hola Kytian.

Remember to do the currencies homework (the explanation is in the class board)

[Kityan]

do you want the currencies in a pm, or just posted here?

[San Juan Capital]

mmm, better PM

[Io Way]

¿Puedo ir al baño?

[San Juan Capital]

sí, puedes... ¡¿hey, ya sabes español?!

[Kawaroo]

To begin with my homework(s)...

¡Hola profesor San Juan, me llamo Kawaroo!

A question: when I write questions like "¿Como estas?", do I follow the same rule - a "¿" in the beginning and a "?" in the end...?

[San Juan Capital]

Almost always, yeah... it's because that for instance, in English, you do chang the order of the words to make the question, in Spanish they really have the same order (Como tú estás, ¿cómo tú estás? (How you are/ How are you?)... There are exceptions. You can begin the sentence with a question and end it with an exclamation mark and vice versa.... (¡Pero, por qué?) It denotes the feeling of the question: surprised.

¿?
¡!

[San Juan Capital]

¡Hola Kawaroo! (¿lo pronuncio Kawarú?) Soy el prof. San Juan Capital.

[Mutanatia]

This class is hereby declared "retired" because the teacher isn't active.