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Hola, Welcome to SpanishDict. Please complete your profile. All you really need to add is your gender and native language and the level of Spanish. Thank you. - rac1, Apr 4, 2016

I vote for your ability in having generated a very interesting conversation, if nothing else. - annierats, Apr 5, 2016

Answer 1

Maybe it's the placement of "de niño"

I think you meant to say that as a child you played with blocks.

The way you said it, it comes out "I played with childrens's blocks."

To say the other, I would use, "De niño, jugaba con bloques"

I hope I caught your meaning, otherwise I have no idea.

Check this out with your teacher. If It's wrong let her keep her "big secret" I hate teachers like that. I'm a teacher and my job is to teach--not make the students guess what's happening.

I'll try switching around "de niño", but I'm not willing to just leave the grade as it is -- that's a direct zero on my report card. - avuong2962, Apr 4, 2016

Wow! For just one goof! No wonder so many students hate foreign language. I once had a teacher like that and challenged the class by examination, got an A and went on to a higher level that had a teacher that I developed a crush on. - Daniela2041, Apr 4, 2016

If it makes you feel better, I think the word order of "de niño" isn't wrong. I can't see why the teacher would say otherwise. - 0bito, Apr 4, 2016

Sorry dani, I should have read all your answer, mine is rather redundant. - annierats, Apr 4, 2016

auvong, use that comma as well. Zero seems rather tough but we don't know you or the teacher. - annierats, Apr 4, 2016

I got feedback for my work and she decided to tell me what was wrong, what do you think? I've edited the question. - avuong2962, Apr 5, 2016

Almost any native speaker here would disagree with your teacher on this one. - Daniela2041, Apr 5, 2016

Almost any native speaker here would disagree with your teacher on this one. - Daniela2041, Apr 5, 2016

Answer 2

Q: ¿Jugabas con bloques de niño?

A: Sí, jugaba con bloques de niño.

"corrected" A: Sí, YO jugaba con LOS bloques de niño.

Hmmm, I tended to agree with Daniela and Annierats- although my instinct was:

Sí, jugaba de niño con bloques.

But that is not the question, so:

Following a question with jugabas- I see no earthly reason for yo- who else would you be talking about- I don’t see it as a good idea to teach to something that is unnatural. You might need it with this answer if the question was “¿Jugaban ustedes con bloques de niño? Sí yo jugaba con bloques, pero mi amigos, no.” But not in the exchange as given.

I do not see a need for los there at all. Yes Spanish uses articles for generic nouns where we don’t- but not after a preposition like this that I have seen. The addition of los really makes it sound to me like you are talking about “the children’s blocks” as opposed to some other kind of blocks. It doesn’t use los in the question- and the question was given.

So I agree entirely with you. I am a learner though, so I post mainly to bring this back to the top and not leave it way down on page 2 where no one may notice.

Is your teacher a native speaker?

Maybe they are a very special kind of bricks/bocks/lego pieces? - annierats, Apr 5, 2016

Surprisingly, she is a native speaker from Costa Rica. - avuong2962, Apr 6, 2016

Answer 3

Just an add-on to Daniella's answer, as I didn't read it properly to start with.

bloqes de niño = lego brick for children

De niño jugaba con bloques de niño

Answer 4

Well, I don't know what "bloques" is xD, but maybe the reason she thought it was wrong is that you wrote a question mark in the answer:

A: ¿Sí,

Bloques is something akin to toy blocks for children, and that's a typo righ there. - avuong2962, Apr 4, 2016

Well, other than the fact the answer sounds quite redundant (repeating the same thing you've been asked is completely unnecessary), I don't see anything wrong with it. - 0bito, Apr 4, 2016

That's the thing though, I have to repeat the question just like that to get any credit for the answer, otherwise it's a "sentence fragment". Complete nonesense in my opinion - avuong2962, Apr 4, 2016