Well... Crap (My Spanish Assignment)
imgur.com/a/ejdD1
imgur.comPosted Sep 13, 2017, 10:58 PM UTC
2924
imgur.comWrite in. "Que te importa pendejo"
6
Uh oh.
1
what is with spanish classes doing romantic assignments like this? is it because its a romance language? is that the joke? man im glad i took latin (even though its the root of all romance languages)
1
is it because its a romance language? is that the joke?
No, Romance language just means it descends from Latin/the Roman Empire.
1
I had that same damn assignment. I was pretty much the only person in my class that had to say I've never had one. It hurt so bad.
1
Jesus why didnt you just lie?
1
Everyone knew I didn't have one.
1
Everyone knew I didn't have one.
1
Jesus why didnt you just lie?
1
Everyone knew I didn't have one.
1
Everyone knew I didn't have one.
1
I had that same damn assignment. I was pretty much the only person in my class that had to say I've never had one. It hurt so bad.
1
Jesus why didnt you just lie?
1
Everyone knew I didn't have one.
1
Everyone knew I didn't have one.
1
Jesus why didnt you just lie?
1
Everyone knew I didn't have one.
1
Everyone knew I didn't have one.
1
Or more specifically, what age they were when they done these things. I just hope the teacher doesn't make everyone advertise their answers, but I doubt the whole class will have to do all 6 questions otherwise it would take forever.
"Nunca Tenia novia" is my planned response
You should make something up tbh. Like maybe a short little story about how you "dated" a girl in preschool when you were 5. It's believable, endearing and I doubt anyone would ask questions about it.
Just a small correction on that. For communication's sake, it's perfectly understandable. However, I think the more correct way to say it is "nunca tuve novia" or "nunca he tenido".
I think "tenía" is the verb conjugated for he/she.
Well the chapter I'm currently on is studying the imperfect past tense, where er verbs get conjugated as -ia (me/he/she) -ias (you) -iamos (me plural) -iais (you plural) and -ian (he/she plural)
Since this is the me form of tener, it gets conjugated as tenia (you can also see the example question at the top of the page, which uses tenia to refer to second person). Then again, I suppose the said (in literal terms)
Then again, I'm hardly the best source of information on the language, I barely passed last semester because I had a generous teacher
I'm technically a native speaker, and grammatically... It seems correct... But it sounds wrong to me. I think it's a stronger version of "I've never had a girlfriend" and "I never had a girlfriend". They mean the same thing, but they imply something slightly different.
Except "nunca tenía novia" seems paradoxical to me because "tenía" implies possession... Ether in the past or present. "no tenía" implies to me that there was possession after the moment in which you didn't have. "no tuve" implies lack across the time. You understand?
It could be a cultural thing. If it's not too much to ask, could you bring this up with your Spanish teacher? If you want to avoid girlfriend talk, you could bring it to them as "nunca tenía carro" VS "nunca tuve carro"
[deleted]
Nunca he tenido novia or nunca tuvé novia is the right answer . I don't know why but gringos use "tenía" (having) all the time .
"Nunca tenía novia" can either means "I never used to have girlfriend " or "I never having girlfriend " .
[removed]
But it's asking when you got your first gf. They'll know something's up from that response.
I don't like lying but dude, you should lie and come up with some vaguely possible story for how you met.
Maybe, but I'm not a really good liar, I would definitely end up giving it away somehow. If I get caught in a lie it will end up much worse than if I just honestly said it. Also I'm not going to advertise it, I'll hold out as long as possible, stall for time, pick them in a "random" order to conveniently do the question last, pretty much anything to avoid the question for as long as possible and hopefully run out of time before I get to it, but if I am asked it then I will have be honest.
Just say a fake year then move on to the next question
Do what u/og_tryhard said. Say something like "No tengo novia pero cuando tenia quatro, me encontré mi novia primera en nursery." That wouldn't be that hard to memorize but it's cute.
That would sound a little bit creepy I think.