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My name is Luis Alberto and I study technology in Montreal.

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updated Nov 9, 2009
edited by --Mariana--
posted by LUIS-ALBERTO-GUZMAN
Hola Luis, escribir todo con mayúsculas no se permite en el foro - 00494d19, Sep 25, 2009
he is following proper Spanish. - zenejero, Oct 6, 2009

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Hello, Luis. Are you a Spanish speaker? Are you trying to learn English? My name is Marie. I only speak a little Spanish.

Hola Luis. ¿Habla español? ¿Estás aprendes inglés? Me llamo Marie. Hablo inglés y un poco español..

updated Oct 6, 2009
edited by lilrokstah
posted by lilrokstah
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Hello, my name is Gloria. I am studing Spanish. It is hard. I know very little.

Hola, mi llamo es Gloria. Estoy estudiando español. Es difícil de aprender. Yo sé muy poco.

updated Oct 6, 2009
posted by gloriadean
Sigue esforzándote Gloria, bien vale la pena. El Español es un idioma riquísimo, lindísimo y divertido - RicardoP, Sep 25, 2009
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Hi Qfreed

Is "hace tres años que he estudiado español" incorrect or awkward? Is the present tense always used when hacer is in the present tense?

I don't know whether it would be awkward to use he estudiado (my own thoughts are that it would not be correct, but you would be better to wait on a native speaker), but I checked with some of my own grammar books, and they seem to imply that the present indicative is the correct tense to go with for these type of constructs (i.e. when describing an action that started in the past and continues into the present).

Hace amount of time que present indicative tense verb.

or

Present Indicative verb tense desde hace amount of time.

updated Oct 6, 2009
edited by Izanoni1
posted by Izanoni1
Gracias, Señor. - 0074b507, Oct 6, 2009
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Tu mensaje debe leer: My name is Luis Albero Guzman and I study technology in Montreal.

Hello. My name is Addison. I am from the United States and I have studied Spanish for 3 years.

Hola. Me llamo Addison. Soy de EE.UU. y hace tres años que estudio español.

updated Sep 25, 2009
posted by Preguntón
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welcome! bienvenido!

updated Nov 9, 2009
posted by zenejero
Personas nuevos: Bienvenidos al foro. - eric_collins, Oct 6, 2009
Personas nuevas: bienvenidos al foro. :D - zenejero, Nov 9, 2009
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Bienvenido compa! Tambien lo aprendo.

updated Oct 8, 2009
posted by Rey_Mysterio
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mi llamo es Gloria.

Should be

me llamo Gloria

updated Oct 6, 2009
posted by Izanoni1
Thank you. - gloriadean, Oct 6, 2009
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@Gfreed...ya te ves tal fluido es espanol, y como sale de nosotros quien han hablado ella tantos anos. Te he dicho.... wink Bueno, has visto como una palabra se cambia su forma (presente, pasado, etc) con contexto. Si, se presente en libros en una forma, pero en la vida real, no es verdad. Espanol es un cosa bien fluido. Las palabras cambian su forma. Perece como una cosa, pero la verdad es otra. Hemos hablado tanto en eso, y estoy super bien contento has visto las construcions que existe in espanol de la vida real! wink

updated Oct 6, 2009
posted by ChamacoMalo
Yes, I know. That is why I was asking if that was a way of saying "have xxxed" for a time period and apparently it is. which apparently it is. - 0074b507, Oct 6, 2009
Yes, I know. That is why I was asking if that was a way of saying "have xxxed" for a time period and apparently it is. - 0074b507, Oct 6, 2009
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Welcome to the forum.

updated Oct 6, 2009
edited by eric_collins
posted by nizhoni1
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Welcome.

updated Oct 6, 2009
posted by Seitheach
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¡Hola Luis y bienvenido al foro! Mi nombre es Eric. Soy de los Estados Unidos y vivo en el estado de Tenesí. Hablo inglés y español. Mi español es bueno pero mi inglés es perfecto porque es mi idioma nativo.

¿Cómo está usted? Estoy muy cansado porque he estado con mis amigos mucho del día.wink

updated Oct 6, 2009
posted by eric_collins
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¿Estás aprendes inglés?

Should be "¿Estás aprendiendo inglés?" I believe.

updated Sep 25, 2009
posted by DR1960
Or just ¿Aprendes inglés? The continuous form of a verb (-ing in English, -iendo/-ando en Español) becomes adjective like, so tends to require "I am"/"Estoy" and vice versa as with any other adjective. - AnnoLoki, Sep 25, 2009
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...and I have studied Spanish for 3 years.

... y hace tres años que estudio español.

Interesting. I understand how hace in the present tense is translated as "it has been 3 years", but how does that mechanism transfer to estudio to make it I have studied?

I'm not saying that you're wrong as I understand that Spanish uses the present tense for present, past, future, and sometimes conditional tenses. I'm just asking if that is a common method for saying "have xxxxed" with the hace+time periphrasis?

Is "hace tres años que he estudiado español" incorrect or awkward? Is the present tense always used when hacer is in the present tense?

updated Sep 25, 2009
edited by 0074b507
posted by 0074b507
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Welcome Alberto!

We're glad to have you here with us.

updated Sep 25, 2009
posted by --Mariana--