The answer is: las llantas/ gomas
Translation:
The Peruvian novelist is in the student residence.
Las alumnas no tienen los libros
You would put LOS instead of LAS because "books" is in the masculine form! The English language doesn't really have masculine forms of "the" but, it is a very important detail in Spanish classes, and if you don't pay attention your teacher can mark you off points!
One thing that helped me out in Spanish was spanishchecker.com
Hope this helps!
My birthday = mi cumpleanos (with a tilde on the n...I don't have the signs...)
Well they speak indigenous languages as their first language, I think. I hope this helps. If not I'm sorry.