Spanish - dishes, office supplies, verbs, nouns, grammar

vocabulary from Rosetta stone, first version and version 4
Latin American Spanish

Dishes:
el vaso - cup
el tazo - cup
el tazón - bowl
el plato- plate


Office supplies-
la pluma - pen
el bolígrafo -pen (version 4)
el papel - paper


verbs-
tener - to have
sostener - to hold (usage of con with sostener - sostiene el telefono CON su mano izquierda)


Adjectives - 
redondo - round
cuadrado- square (adj)
rectangular - rectanular
algo - something
Ambas mujeres - some women
ninguna mujer - no women


Use of a pronoun?
- una esta senalando con su mano derecha y la otra esta con su mano izquierda.

Nouns - 
el micrófono - microphone
la cantante and el cantante - singer
la guitarra- guitar (grammar) tiene una guitarra en la mano izquierda y una en la mano derecha - note the pattern here of una
gire - turn
no estacione - no parking
no gire a la izquierda/a la derecha - no left turn, no right turn
no gire en U - no U turn
el reloj - watch
la ventana - window
la casa - house
señal - sign
la vaca - cow
el canguro - kangaroo


words to be confirmed-
Aviso - caution?
venado - deer?


Grammar -
- Está señalando CON su mano derecha. - pointing with the right hand.
- shapes grammar- no es X, Y, ni Z
use 'es' with shapes like round or square.

Grammar notes for Unit 5, lesson 5 Spanish

1-5-5
Rosetta Stone

New Vocab:
pasear - to walk, as in to walk a dog
empujar - to push?
jalar - to pull?
arreglar? - to fix or work on, like work on a bicycle? arregla la bicicleta.
la medicina - medicine
glass of water - vaso de agua
alguien - someone
algo - something

Grammar:
andar en la bicicleta - ride a bik

is giving something to someone else
 X le está dando (sometimes el or la) Y a el/la Z
ex. El hombre le está dando la guitarra a la niña.
OR
X le está dando a Z Y
ex. Alguien le está dando al hombre un plato de comida

is getting something from someone else
X está recibiendo (sometimes el or la) Y de el/la Z
ex. El niño está recibiendo la guitarra de la mujer.


Unknown:
1. El hombre está cargando al niño.
carry, maybe - walking with boy on his shoulders in the picture.

2. La niña está agarrando un plato
she;s picking up an empty plate from a stack of plates on a table. Getting herself a plate? Fixing a plate - is it related to arreglando?  Arranging the plates?  Checking on this. Google translate says grab, gripping, getting a hold of

3. past tense of dar?
El hombre le dio un vaso de leche a la mujer
for when he's already given it to her.


How did it go?
Pretty well. I remembered much of this the first time around, I liked it well enough.

Was anything tricky or difficult?
Arreglar vs. agarrar kept tripping me up
Arreglar - to fix  agarrar - to grab

remembering the reflexive 'le' before the verb 'dar.'

What can help?
Agarrar - My mnemonic: a caveman, Garr,  coming into a house and pointing to every object he finds. Every time he sees one he goes 'Ah! Garr's!'  and grabs it.

Arreglar - The group of men are sitting around trying to fix this weird, crazy bicycle in rainbow colors and pinwheels and such. And every time they try something and it fails, they are glaring at the thing like that will fix it instead.

Verbs I

Verbs up through Level 1 Unit 2 lesson 1
Order of conjugation: yo, tú, [él, ella, Ud.], nosotros, [ellos, ellas, Uds.]

Notes on verbs:
1. -ar verbs, drop the -ar and add -o, -as, -a, -amos, or -an to the stem (part with the -ar).
2. -er verbs, drop the -er and add -o, -es, -e, -emos, or -en to the stem.
3. -ir verbs, drop the -ir, and add -o, -es, -e, -imos, or -en to the stem.
4.  Some verbs are irregular and don't conjugate like the rest. You will learn these as you go and just have to memorize them.