If you have time to listen and correct
Hey y'all.
I had to do a recording for school, and I was wondering if you could listen (and read) and then hand me your thoughts; where I was wrong and how I can improve in both my writing and speaking.
Here is the recording and below is the written. 
El año pasado, fui con mi familia a Garden Hill, Manitoba, Canada. Viajamos en avión pequeño. Fuimos para reuniones el evangelio de tienda a cantamos. Pusimos todo en avión, con todos nos instrumentos, y equipaje. Porque el aeropuerto fue pequeño, y fuimos viajando con un ministerio, fueron no aduana, y no control de seguridad. Es muy facíl. Hacía mucho fresco en Garden Hill. Después obtuvimos, caminamos por media milla con todos nos instrumentos y equipaje. Cantamos en los reuniones, y hecho amigos nuevo, y mirar viejo amigos.
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Hi actorgirl , it is not in my brief to comment on the Spanish , although it did
sound OK to me . But with respect you could try putting a little life into your
delivery , try modulating your voice , feel the emotion of the words , start in a lower
register ,and gradually finish on a high happy note. But overall I thought it very good ,
well done .
Very good job Actorgirl. Here are a few pointers per your request
Pasado - seguridad
These need the soft 'th' sounding d
At the beginning of a word and after "n" or "l", the hard Spanish "d" closely resembles the "d" in the word "dog." The difference is that when pronouncing the hard Spanish "d", the tongue touches the back of the front teeth (rather than the gum ridge, as in English). In other situations (particularly between vowels) the "d" is softer, closely resembling the "th" sound in the word "this."
familia, reuniones
Probably wouldn’t hurt to listen to the automated voice on the translation window to hear these words,
Canadá
Notice in Spanish how the accent falls on the last A
Viajamos obtuvimos
1.Words ending in a vowel, -n, or -s are stressed on the next to the last (penultimate) syllable:
2.Words ending in any consonant except -n or -s are stressed on the last syllable:
fácil
Two syllable word with the stress on the first syllable as shown by the accent mark.
Hacía
Notice that the stress falls on the last syllable as shown by the accent mark.
Good attempt! It was interesting to read and I was surprised that there was no security and there were no 'Customs' officers.
I will return to this later ( I have only checked the text and have not listened to the spoken recording) but I will write a quick observation!
At the end, It should read " He/.hemos hecho nuevoS amigos Hecho by itself simply does not indicate who made new friends This past participle forms part of a tense called the perfect indicative and needs to be conjugated correctly like all verbs.
He hecho (...amigos) = I have made (...friends)
has hecho = You have made
ha hecho = he/she has made.
You have made (sing and polite)
Hemos hecho = We have made
Habéis hecho - You have made (Plural form used in Spain)
Han hecho They have made
Were you meaning to say: I made new friends He hecho nuevos amigos ? or Hemos hecho nuevos amigos = We have made new friends. ?
Usually, but not always, the adjective follows the noun in Spanish, but in this case the adjective nuevos precedes the noun amigos!
In Spanish, as also with French,sometimes the same adjective can either precede or follow a noun but carry a different meaning!
I hope this helps
Dear ,, a great try indeed but if I may, I would sure like to suggest some corrections so that u deliver it correctly in your school ..
irst correction... should be nuestros instrumentos y equipaje (nos is a reflexive, or direct object or indirect object pronoun and can't be used here) here u need a possesive adjectivee to indicate you ownership or posseisson of the items you are referring to ,, which is nuestro.
2nd suggestion : It might be better to say ,, fui a garden hill con mi familia ,, instead of fui con mi familia a garden hill ,, because IR has a characterstic preposition "a" which always follows the verb ,, it is like Ir and a are married to each other so it might not be a good idea to set them apart .
And then for the next sentence I would like to suggest .... facturamos todo el equipaje que incluyó nuestros instrumentos.
And not fuimos viajando ,, but ,, estuvimos/estabamos viajando or simply viajabamos .
And minister is ,, el ministro ,,, ministerio means tye whole ministry ,, I think that is not what u want to say (that you were travelling with an entire ministry) so if u were travelling with one minister it is ministro ..
Then ,, fueron no aduana needs to be changed to no hubo aduana or no había aduana ,, the negation no comes before the verb ...
Ok dear need to take Leo for a walk ,,, I will read the rest later on... Good Job though.
