Thanks for helping me.

OJO: Notice "por" because "ayudarme" is the cause of my thanking. I'm giving you thanks in exchange for helping me.

OJO: Notice I can use the infinitive (unconjugated form of the verb), ayudar, to talk about the idea of helping.

OJO: Remember the "me" gets tacked on to the end of an infinitive or a command.

"(She) also has a little bit of fear."

~She is also a little scared.

OJO: Accent on "también."

OJO: "Tiene" is an e>ie stem changer from tener, to have.

OJO: "un poco de" means "a little bit of." Compare with "pequeñ@," small.

OJO: Notice "miedo" is a noun, a thing. So we say she "has a little bit of" (tiene un poco de) fear, not "is very" (está muy) fear.

"Ana lowers herself from the plane."

~Ana gets off the plane.

COGNADOS: "Bajarse" (to lower oneself) "Baja California" (Lower CA) and "debajo de la mesa" (under the table) are all related to lower, under, down.

OJO: Use "se" because she is lowering "herself."

OJO: Notice "del," (from the).

OJO: Notice conjunction "del" for "de+el).

OJO: Avión has an accent.

COGNADOS: Avión, ave (bird), aviation, aviator sunglasses, aviary all have to do with flying.

You were alone.

OJO: Compare "tú" (you) and "tu" (your).

OJO: "Estabas" is past tense. It means "you were (being)."

OJO: Use "estar" and not "ser." Aloneness is a condition.

COGNADOS: "Sola," solo, solitary, solitude, sole, console all have to do with being one or alone.

OJO: Use "sola" and not "solo" because it is describing how Ana was and she is a girl.

No problem.

OJO: "Hay" means "there is/there are." It refers to things existing or being.

OJO: "No" goes before the verb.

OJO: FYI "Problema" is masculine because it's from Greek.

OJO: Notice we don't say "un" before "problema" because that would make it sound like "one problem."

They don't bathe (themselves) with hot water.

COGNADOS: "Se bañan," "el baño" (the bathroom) and "traje de baño" (bathing suit) have to do with bathing.

COGNADOS: "Caliente," "Hace calor" ("It does/makes heat"; ~It's hot out), and "calories" (units of food energy heat that can be "burned") all have to do with heat.

OJO: "Se bañan" could also mean "They bathe each other" but logically it's more likely that they each bathe themselves!!

the family's address

OJO: "La dirección" doesn't mean "directions" to their house.

OJO: It's "la" because words that end in "-ción" are feminine.

OJO: Accent on "dirección."

OJO: Remember that "la familia" is considered singular, feminine (like a "she") even though a family has multiple people in it.

The two (of them) can communicate with each other very well.

OJO: "Las" dos because they are two girls.

OJO: "Pueden" is an o>ue stem changer from poder (to be able to, to "can")

OJO: "Pueden comunicarse:" When two verbs go a walking, the first one does the talking. "Pueden" is conjugated but "comunicar" is not.

OJO: Tack "se" onto infinitives (ej. comunicarse) and commands (Ej. ¡Siéntate!).

OJO: "Pueden comunicarse" could also mean "they can each communicate with themselves" but "with each other" makes more sense.

OJO: Compare comunicarse "bien" (well) vs. "un amigo buen@" (a good friend).

OJO: Compare "muy" (very) with "mucho" (a lot).