Beatriz y yo ________ a la playa
Which of these make sense for this sentence?
Beatriz y yo ___|\___|__ a la playa
a. voy
b. vas
c. va
d. vamos
25 Answers
ohh trust me... they are! the thing that the teachers don't get is that people do not naturally learn how to speak a language based soly upon the written language! think about how to teach a baby to speak... you dont hand them a pen and a vocab list and expect them to speak the language! i know that it is harder due to age appropiateness and such, but visuals and actual dialogue is the key to learning a language... i feel that you can refine the grammar part AFTER you get comfortable speaking the language and being able to PULL the vocab off the lists and into a conversation... I HATE IT when my teachers expect me to speaking it after only passing a written vocab quiz! AH! it is SOOOO frustrating!
haha, true that! Conor, don't NOT get involved in high school, ESPECIALLY as a freshman... thats one of the things that i regret most in high school... and go to as MANY games as possible! haa haa, my friends and i even go to tennis and golf and now track (i swear it helps them win!!)
i have one more sad, lonely year of high school.... huhhh... i feel old :D
My son took Spanish 1 & 2 in high school, made decent grades, but cannot speak a single word of Spanish. There was little or no focus on speaking and listening, only written grammar.
I'm a relative beginner, but I have the Pimsleur tapes (they are expensive, but I didn't pay for mine) and listen to them in my car. I can say a lot of things in Spanish. I have used Rosetta Stone too (ditto, expensive, but I got it free) and it's visual and audio.
I have learned much better from audio than from books and I think classroom Spanish courses are a real waste for people trying to obtain what is becoming a very important skill.
Please don't use text when responding, many people are learning English.
thank you.
and seriously, i can't believe we're almost done w/ high school. im srsly gonna miss high school. cus after college, we have to be adults :(
& to manutd, man, you're still a freshman. you have a long way to go :]
enjoy it!!
Sure, any time 
2012! Ha, freshman all the way. And to Mariyah, yes, it can be hard when you are first starting, but try to keep working on it and you'll find that it will start to improve quickly. Saludos,
Manutd
haha! i dont see why ne one would WANT to do homeschool! girl you're crazy!! lol, i actually have ADHD, lol, hence the fact that i dont practice my spanish at the table or like, on my homework, but instead i practice by talking to my things!! =D haha, and here, my families are my things!!!
HELL YA '09!!!!! i cant believe that we are almost done!! i cant wait and yet, im gonna miss highschool and like all my friends and stuff... lol, ill get over it! shit, im not stayin here either... im off to go to school in boston! EAST COAST!!!
well, in spanish you can still say Beatriz and I, but it is considered unnecessary information. You know how in English, we use pronouns instead of repeating the subject, well it is the same in spanish except for they just in a sense "add the pronoun" onto the back end of the verb. so, we talk is the exact same thing is hablamos. you can still add "beatriz and I" to the front, but then you are repeating yourself, we because the reader already knows that you are talking about we because of the "amos" at the end of the verb.
im not sure if your spanish teach ever writes things like
(Yo) Soy muy baja.
(Adam) tienes dos libros.
but the subject/pronoun (in the parenthesis) is not necessarily needed at the front unless you are adding an additional subject. It is only there for aditional clarification. [In some countries, native speakers will sometimes add the pronoun/subject in conversation to add emphasis, for example, i DONT like asparagus.... YO NO ME GUSTA ESPARRAGO... Ive noticed that my neighbor from Panama always says the subject at the front when she is talking, but never when she is writing in spanish.]
well, that was really long, but i hope it made sense! lol, or at least you might use it for future reference (haha, actually, definitely know WHAT to put in parenthesis becuase you WILL need it for things like subjective verb forms!)
ohhhhh KKKK, ill ttyl! write me if you have any more questions!!
damn, it's really great that you're learning it by yourself. That's what I'm trynna do too cus my "experimental" personality compelled me to try homeschooling this year. But i'm also really really like ADD so it hasnt worked out and I've procrastinated til about the last minute. & dammit, it IS hard! lol. & im gonan be sure to check that site
OH HELL YES!! CLASS OF `09!!
ooo. gotttit. thanks. but u know how in english we wud say "Beatriz & I go to the beach'" but i guess in in spanish you need the "we." which is kinda confusing.
ir to go is an irregular verb
voy I go,
vas you go (familiar)
va you, he, she goes ,
vamos we go
van they go
haha... exactly!! =D it will be good for them!
~ im a junior... i took like, half a semester in 8th grade, but for high shcool it wasnt enough to go to spanish 2... long story short, i learn NOTHING in highschool spanish 1, and i had to skip spanish 2 becuase im in the IB programme... so now, im in spanish 4.... haha... LONNNNNNNNNNG story =D im not learning a lot from my spanish class... i do most of it on my own with native speakers or the text books or learning places like here or studyspanish.com (thats a pretty good one if you need a quick lesson or verb tenses, but otherwise its just ok).
~so why are you starting spanish in the middle of the year... hell, in the middle of the semester'!'! it must be hard....
~one last thing... GO JUNIORS!!!!!!!! 09!!!! (haha! eat it conor! conor is the manutd guy =D)
thank u so much. that really helped. :]
damn. 2 years. you must be pretty good. if you're in high school, im guessing u started as a freshman. well, im a junior & i started like 5 days ago. :( and i like your idea. haha. it sounds good. i'll definitely have to try that. and yea, the family probably wont appreciate it. but, oh well, right'
