Maria Valcam
1 min readJan 17, 2020

Hi Ramin, Thanks for the message! no offense taken! It is funny because I always have these mistakes. “People” (“gente”) is singular in Spanish. I try to remember to use plural but it goes against my brain.

I also have problems writing words that sound similar. Sometimes I write “hair” instead of “her”, or “this” instead of “these”.

And we use many more commas in Spanish. We write paragraphs that are a single sentence. I remember my Spanish teacher used to pick really long sentences to analyze. Even more if you read poetry! look at this:

Con diez cañones por banda,
viento en popa a toda vela,
no corta el mar, sino vuela
un velero bergantín;

bajel pirata que llaman,
por su bravura, el Temido,
en todo mar conocido
del uno al otro confín.

I will make the corrections, thanks!

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Maria Valcam
Maria Valcam

Written by Maria Valcam

Engineer with an MBA. I am interested in Business, Doversity and Engineering.

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