Do Spanish speakers use the Present Continuous
I'm not looking for definitions or examples. What I'd like is your experience of how Spanish speakers speak Spanish. A simple "yes" or "no" answer is no help.
In English, a simple Present tense is like "I hate men" or "You kick the ball" or "My wife cooks the dinner". We don't use it a whole lot because we more often use the Present Continuous where the above would be like "I'm hating men" (this week?), "You're kicking the ball" or "My wife is cooking the dinner" (well that's tonight: I cooked it last night.
When I first learnt Spanish, I was warned that, mostly, the simple present was used, not the continuous. During 7 years of speaking Spanish every day, not to mention reading and writing it, I found that this was not 100% true, there was a continuous, but it was not used very frequently.
Has this changed? Nearly all of our contributors, especially those whose mother tongue is English, write as if the continuous were the norm. If I disagree, am I in a minority of 1?
Please help
Seems that "Continuous" has been superseded by "Progressive" though I don't know why.
3 Answers
About the only time I use it is for emphasis if something is going at at that very moment that I want to stress. Of course, I'm not a native speaker, so I guess this really doesn't answer your question.
I am far from an expert, geofc, but I tend to agree with you. I think the present progressive (or continuous) is used much less often in Spanish than in English.
Do you mean the present progressive?
If so, it's taught in lesson 1.12 Clothing and the Present Progressive.
Estoy comprando dos camisas.
I don't know if native Spanish speakers use it a lot but I sure do 
