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142 word Spanish essay help

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Hey everyone!

I was just wondering if someone would mind proofreading this Spanish essay for me. I have run it through language checking sites (like spanishchecker.com) and fixed the mistakes there, but I just wanted an opinion from an actual speaker. This is a Spanish 2 class, so they are not expecting super complex sentence structures. The topic is:

  1. “Arrepentimientos” (Regrets). Write about what you would change about your past and how that would have affected your life. Proper use of si clauses in the past (Ch11) is required (pluperfect subjunctive and conditional perfect).

What I have written is:

Cuando yo estoy pensando en mi pasado, no pienso que quiera cambiar nada. Mi pasado y mi vida no son perfectos, pero yo estoy contenta y alegre. Tengo una familia que me aman, amigos buenos con quienes yo puedo vivir, y un futuro muy interesante. Si mi pasado fue diferente, yo sería diferente también.

Si yo tengo que elegir algo para cambiar sobre mi pasado, haría una posibilidad. Un tiempo cuando yo era niña, tuve la oportunidad para ir al próximo grado sin esperar un año. Cuando yo tenía seis años, pude ir al grado tercio en lugar del grado segundo. Si hubiera ido al grado tercio, habría asistido al colegio cuando yo tenía quince años. Pienso que los otros partes de mi vida habrían sido similares si hubiera hecho esto.

En final, me gusta mi vida y no quiero cambiar nada.

What I'm trying to say in English is:

When I am thinking about my past, I do not think that there is anything that I would want to change. Mi past and my life are not perfect, but I am content and happy. I have a family that loves me, good friends with whom I can live (meaning like, live with them. I originally had this phrased as "live with", but you aren't supposed to end in words like with), an an interesting future. If my past had gone differently, I would be different as well.

If I had to chose something to change about my past, there would be one possibility. One time when I was young, I had the opportunity to go to the next grade without waiting a year. When I was 6, I could go to third grade instead of second grade. If I had gone to third grade, I would have attended college when I was 15 years old. I think that the other parts of my life would have been similar if I had done this.

In conclusion, I like my life and I wouldn't want to change anything.

Thanks in advance for the help!

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updated Apr 28, 2016
posted by huffmuffin9
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Done! - huffmuffin9, Apr 28, 2016

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Cuando pienso en mi pasado, no pienso en que quiera cambiar nada. Mi pasado y mi vida no son perfectos, pero estoy contenta y alegre. Tengo una familia que me ama, amigos buenos con quienes puedo vivir y un futuro muy interesante. Si mi pasado fuera diferente, yo también sería diferente. Si tuviera que elegir algo para cambiar sobre mi pasado, habría una posibilidad (habría una posibilidad sounds odd to me in both, Spanish and English...). Una vez cuando era niña, tuve la oportunidad de ir al próximo grado sin esperar un año (or you could say saltearme un grado). Cuando tenía seis años, pude haber ido a tercer grado en lugar del segundo grado. Si hubiera ido a tercer grado, habría asistido (do you mean university with college? if so: a la universidad) cuando tenía quince años. Pienso que las otras partes de mi vida habrían sido similares si hubiera hecho esto.

updated Apr 28, 2016
posted by aileribel
Thanks so much! The habría was actually a typo, I was trying to saw haría; saying there would be one possibility. Do you know if that would sound okay in Spanish, or should I find a way tor rework that? - huffmuffin9, Apr 28, 2016
Haría comes from the verb hacer, you need the verb haber in this context. I woudl say: Si tuviera que elegir algo para cambiar de mi pasado, hay una cosa que elegiría or something like that - aileribel, Apr 28, 2016
Oh, okay. Thanks again for the help! - huffmuffin9, Apr 28, 2016