Homework and Los Gamelos Heroes.
For an assignment, I'm illustrating a version of The Hero Twins. My spanish is limited and I want to make sure it is well written.
Please limit suggestions regarding voice or flow, as I'm an intermediate student on a good day and what matters to me is correct grammar and spelling.
Here is what I have so far:
Los mayas tenian muchos mitos muy facinando.
Los cuentos era sobre cosas en sus vidas, como la luna, los jaguaretes, el coyote, y otros.
Todavia, es una cuenta sobre dos hermans quien enganio los dios de muertos
Los ganelos heroes vivia en la edad de los mayas.
Se llamo One Hunapu y Seven Hunapu.
A los hermanos le gustaba jugar...
And I have no idea what the word is for the mayan ball game, and I can't seem to find it anywhere.
Help would be very much appreciated, as I'm rather clueless.
5 Answers
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Los ganelos heroes vivia en la edad de los mayas.
Se llamo One Hunapu y Seven Hunapu.
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A little contribution, you are mixing English numbers in a Spanish text refering to Mayans, I will say:
"Los gemelos héroes vivían en la edad de los mayas.
Se llamaban Uno Hunapu y Siete Hunapu." Or using the mayan numbers 'Hun Hunapu y Uuc Hunapu.'
Los mayas tenían muchos mitos muy...
es un[del]a[/del] cuent[del]a[/del]o sobre dos hermanos [del]quienes[/del]que engañaron a los dioses de los muertos
you also have a couple of accent errors on the past tense verbs por ejemplo: tenían needs an accent.
Oh and with the part that says "dos hermanos quienes..." you cannot put the pronoun quien directly after the antecedent unless it is separated by commas.
For example you could write "Los hermanos,quienes engañaron a los dioses, eran muy valientes." Because in this case the pronoun is in a phrase in between commas and the sentence continues after the end comma after "dioses".
Todavia, es una cuenta sobre dos hermans quien enganio los dios de muertos
Pero este es el cuento de dos hermanos que engañaron al dios de los muertos.
"todavía" = "still" in the sense of "even now" e.g. "Oh, are you still here? I thought you had already left." I believe you want "still" in the sense of "however". You've just said that the stories often were about animals. However, this story is about two brothers ... "still has at east four different senses in English (which correspond to four different words in Spanish). This is not unusual when translating, so when looking something up in the dictionary, you need to read the entire entry to make sure that there are not other, more appropriate, meanings.
P.S. I don't know if the Mayans had one god of death or several. Since qfreed gave you the change for multiple gods, I'm giving the one for a single god.
It's a bit of a read, but they give names to the old and new versions of the game here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_ballgame
For an assignment, I'm illustrating a version of The Hero Twins. My spanish is limited and I want to make sure it is well written.
Please limit suggestions regarding voice or flow, as I'm an intermediate student on a good day and what matters to me is correct grammar and spelling.
Here is what I have so far:
Los mayas tienian muchos mitos muy facinando (need an adjective form-fascinantes).Los cuentos era(n) sobre cosas en sus vidas, como la luna, los jaguar[del]et[/del]es, el coyote, y otros. (no comma before the y in Spanish)
Todavía, es un[del]a[/del] cuent[del]a[/del]o sobre dos hermanos quienes(¿que') engañan[del]o[/del] los dioses de los muertos
Los ga[del]n[/del]melos heroes vivian en la edad de los mayas.
Se llam[del]o[/del]an One Hunapu y Seven Hunapu.
A los hermanos les gustaba jugar...
And I have no idea what the word is for the mayan ball game, and I can't seem to find it anywhere.
Help would be very much appreciated, as I'm rather clueless.
Why make your list of story topics all singular nouns except one plural?
el jaguar-what is a jaguaret?
Is that the game where they used heads of captives for a ball? I'll try finding that, you start making corrections then re-post.
