To all Spanish speakers: Is this correct?

Mama Bear

Tue, Feb 03 2009, 11:25 pm

I want to make sure that google translate did this correctly. Can I challenge you to tell me what this is, to make sure my Mexican cleaning woman will understand what I want from her when I show this to her? thanks.

Quote:

Por favor poner todos los pequeños juguetes que se encuentra, en esta caja.
Voy a poner a la basura después que pertenecen.
La gran juguetes puede poner en el armario o en el suelo.
gracias!

chanahlady

Wed, Feb 04 2009, 1:21 pm

I'm not a great Spanish speaker, but here goes:

Please put all the small toys that you find in this box.
I'm going to put it in the trash after ...?
The big toys you can put in the chest or on the floor.
Thank you!

bluebird

Wed, Feb 04 2009, 6:41 pm

Mama Bear wrote:

Quote:

Por favor poner todos los pequeños juguetes que se encuentra, en esta caja.
Voy a poner a la basura después que pertenecen.
La gran juguetes puede poner en el armario o en el suelo.
gracias!

The second line made me laugh. "I will put them in the trash after they belong." Well, I feel that way when cleaning sometimes, too! Silly Google.

"Poner" is "put" but you usually use "guardar" for "put away."

Favor de guardar los juguetes pequeños que se encuentra en esta caja. Los guardaré.

Favor de guardar los juguetes grandes en el armario o en el suelo.
** This means "please put the large toys away in the wardrobe or on the floor." Is that what you meant?

¡Gracias!

I'm not a native Spanish speaker, so I can't guarantee that the above is perfect—but I am pretty sure it's better than Google. I'm not sure if a native speaker would repeat "en" or not in the third sentence. As long as you take out the bit about how you're going to put things in the trash, either translation should get your point across even if it makes the reader giggle a little.

Mama Bear

Wed, Feb 04 2009, 7:15 pm

When she finished cleaning she began to babble something about nino junto maestro. I gathered that her son is in some sort of recital. I asked her lalalala? she nodded. It's so weird the charades we go through to communicate!

bonnie

Wed, Feb 04 2009, 7:37 pm

Mama Bear wrote:

I don't know what junto means. Maestro means teacher, nino means son