このみせはてんいんがじゅうにんいます。
My understanding: This store has twelve angel people.
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Where are you getting angel people?
With kanji this sentence would be この店は店員が十人います - there are ten employees in this shop
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Ten employees, I think you mean.
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oh I thought 店員 meant angel.
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Angel people 
That’s cute
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…Right, yes. Derp.
Ten employees
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That’s Tenshi … 天使
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You must know some better stores than me.
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店員 is an employee 
angel is 天使
So the “core” of the sentence is 店員が十人います - 人 being the counter for people. If you’re not familiar with counters, they’re basically words that mark what a number is counting (if it were pencils instead you might say 十本, 本 being the counter for long cylindrical things).
Tofugu has a good article about numbers and counters in Japanese:
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I welcome our new angels, aka 天員.
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What I want to know is, how many store employees can dance on the head of a pin?
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What about this one: きょうは（ なにも ）たべませんでした。
I thought that mo means and also, right?
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何も means nothing when used with a negative verb. It’s the same for other words too such as 誰も. When 誰 is used by itself it means who, but when you add も and use it with a negative verb, it turns into no one.
Please read this article:
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天人? Heaven people.
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underrated comment
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何か means “something”. 何も means “anything”. 何も+negative means “not anything”, or “nothing”.
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so in the above example of きょうは（ なにも ）たべませんでした。
would it be “I didn’t eat anything today” (or more lit.“I ate nothing today”) ?
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Yeah, exactly. Though I’d say the former is closer to a “literal” translation.
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I found this sentence so weird.
あのジャケットをきている人は私の友達です。
Like that jacket person.
きている means to come right?
the second part I understand is “Is my friend.”
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This is the verb 着る (to wear).
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