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Need help with Spanish punctuation and accents.

MaureenM618 Posted:

Need help with Spanish punctuation and accents.

Thanks to fabulousmady, I now have a Spanish translation for my STD notecards. Unfortunately, The accents and other Spanish punctuation is not showing up. Please help!!!

Nuestro dia llegara pronto,
Y no podemos esperar!
Pegue este iman en su nevera,
Para que no te vas a olividar!

Para aquellos que vienen desde lejos, nos hemos reservado cuartos de hotel en el Ramada Adria Conference Center Bayside. La tarifa del grupo seran $145 mas impuestos por noche. Para reservar su cuarto, por favor menciona la boda de McDonnell/Negron para recibir su descuento. Por favor llama a 718-631-7900 antes del 24 de abril de 2009 para reservar sus cuartos.
Princess Cut Bride Posted:

Re: Need help with Spanish punctuation and accents.

Nuestro dí a llegará pronto,
Y no podemos esperar!
Pegue este iman en su nevera,
Para que no te olividarás!

Para áquellos que vienen desde lejos, nos hemos reservado cuartos de hotel en el Ramada Adria Conference Center Bayside. La tarifa de grupo será $145 más impuestos por noche. Para reservar su cuarto, por favor menciona la boda de McDonnell/Negron para recibir su descuento. Por favor llama a 718-631-7900 antes del 24 de abril de 2009 para reservar sus cuartos.

I also made a few gramatical corrections with the words.
MrsD71208 Posted:

Re: Need help with Spanish punctuation and accents.


Posted by MaureenM618

Thanks to fabulousmady, I now have a Spanish translation for my STD notecards. Unfortunately, The accents and other Spanish punctuation is not showing up. Please help!!!

Nuestro dia llegara pronto,
Y no podemos esperar!
Pegue este iman en su nevera,
Para que no te vas a olividar!

Para aquellos que vienen desde lejos, nos hemos reservado cuartos de hotel en el Ramada Adria Conference Center Bayside. La tarifa del grupo seran $145 mas impuestos por noche. Para reservar su cuarto, por favor menciona la boda de McDonnell/Negron para recibir su descuento. Por favor llama a 718-631-7900 antes del 24 de abril de 2009 para reservar sus cuartos.



I see three spots that need accents in the first part....I made the letters bigger for the ones that need accents.

Nuestro dIa llegara pronto, (the I in dia)
Y no podemos esperar!
Pegue este imAn en su nevera, (the A in iman)
Para quE no te vas a olividar! (the E in que)

HTH
mendi725 Posted:

Re: Need help with Spanish punctuation and accents.

Para quE no te vas a olividar! (the E in que)


that que doesn't get an accent...only the question word what...your saying that in this case.
mendi725 Posted:

Re: Need help with Spanish punctuation and accents.

also...in Spanish the expression for can't wait is...


ver el momento...you can't literally translate in this case. you would say...

no vemos el momento
mendi725 Posted:

Re: Need help with Spanish punctuation and accents.

Para aquellos que vienen desde lejos, nos hemos reservado cuartos de hotel en el Ramada Adria Conference Center Bayside. La tarifa del grupo seran $145 mas impuestos por noche. Para reservar su cuarto, por favor menciona la boda de McDonnell/Negron para recibir su descuento. Por favor llama a 718-631-7900 antes del 24 de abril de 2009 para reservar sus cuartos.

some other changes...

i think it sounds better saying cada noche

You are using the polite forms in some spots and the tu (accent on the u) friendly form...i think it should be formal so here would be some changes...

mencione-formal, polite command

llame (formal, polite command)

and for the top part where it says te olvidaras (with accent) you would say
se olvidará (polite) b/c you say pegue which is the polite command so the same form should follow through.

and you can also take out the a before the phone number

I think your all set...I'll look again in a bit.





DavaDay Posted:

Re: Need help with Spanish punctuation and accents.

The above re-write was very good. I agree with everything here, except the bit about removing the 'a' after 'llame'; I'd change it to 'al' instead of removing it:


Posted by mendi725

Para aquellos que vienen desde lejos, nos hemos reservado cuartos de hotel en el Ramada Adria Conference Center Bayside. La tarifa del grupo seran $145 mas impuestos por noche. Para reservar su cuarto, por favor menciona la boda de McDonnell/Negron para recibir su descuento. Por favor llama a 718-631-7900 antes del 24 de abril de 2009 para reservar sus cuartos.

some other changes...

i think it sounds better saying cada noche

You are using the polite forms in some spots and the tu (accent on the u) friendly form...i think it should be formal so here would be some changes...

mencione-formal, polite command

llame (formal, polite command)

and for the top part where it says te olvidaras (with accent) you would say
se olvidará (polite) b/c you say pegue which is the polite command so the same form should follow through.

and you can also take out the a before the phone number

I think your all set...I'll look again in a bit.



So, with the changes, it looks like this (there are hardly any necessary accent marks so it's easy):

Para aquellos que vienen desde lejos, nos hemos reservado cuartos de hotel en el Ramada Adria Conference Center Bayside. La tarifa del grupo serán $145 más impuestos cada noche. Para reservar su cuarto, por favor mencione la boda de McDonnell/Negron para recibir su descuento. Por favor llame al 718-631-7900 antes del 24 de abril de 2009 para reservar sus cuartos.
MaureenM618 Posted:

Re: Need help with Spanish punctuation and accents.

Thanks a lot girls!!! I really appreciate all your help!!!
mendi725 Posted:

Re: Need help with Spanish punctuation and accents.


Posted by DavaDay

The above re-write was very good. I agree with everything here, except the bit about removing the 'a' after 'llame'; I'd change it to 'al' instead of removing it:


Posted by mendi725

Para aquellos que vienen desde lejos, nos hemos reservado cuartos de hotel en el Ramada Adria Conference Center Bayside. La tarifa del grupo seran $145 mas impuestos por noche. Para reservar su cuarto, por favor menciona la boda de McDonnell/Negron para recibir su descuento. Por favor llama a 718-631-7900 antes del 24 de abril de 2009 para reservar sus cuartos.

some other changes...

i think it sounds better saying cada noche

You are using the polite forms in some spots and the tu (accent on the u) friendly form...i think it should be formal so here would be some changes...

mencione-formal, polite command

llame (formal, polite command)

and for the top part where it says te olvidaras (with accent) you would say
se olvidará (polite) b/c you say pegue which is the polite command so the same form should follow through.

and you can also take out the a before the phone number

I think your all set...I'll look again in a bit.



So, with the changes, it looks like this (there are hardly any necessary accent marks so it's easy):

Para aquellos que vienen desde lejos, nos hemos reservado cuartos de hotel en el Ramada Adria Conference Center Bayside. La tarifa del grupo serán $145 más impuestos cada noche. Para reservar su cuarto, por favor mencione la boda de McDonnell/Negron para recibir su descuento. Por favor llame al 718-631-7900 antes del 24 de abril de 2009 para reservar sus cuartos.



thanks for helping me! I learned something new today!

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