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Old December 10, 2011, 12:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Lar69 View Post
¡Hola de Canada!
He estado tratando de aprender español por 2 años. Escucho a discos compactos mientras manejo al trabajo. He aprendido mucho pero hay muchísimo más que aprender. Tengo muchas preguntas y ojalá que puedan ayudarme. También, ¡¡¡me gustaría ayudarlos con sus preguntas sobre el inglés!!!

¡Ojalá que entiendan mi español!
I hope you understand my Spanish!

¡¡¡Hasta luego!!!
There's an 'Accents' drop-down menu located just above where you enter text. You can use it to insert all the special characters you'll need to type in Spanish.

Spanish has another, much more common, way to say 'I have been (doing something) for (some amount of time). Study up on 'hace' + 'amount of time' + que + 'doing something (using the present indicative tense)'.
Hace dos años que trato de aprender español.

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Originally Posted by Lar69 View Post
he, ha, has, hemos and han are forms of the verb haber

he comido/hablado
I have eaten/spoken

ha=you have she has or you in the formal have....
has=you (familiar) have
hemos= we have....
han=they have....

This is used to form the present perfect subjunctive tense in Spanish. It isn't called that in Spanish. It's the preterite perfect compound form of the verb. It uses the present tense conjugation of 'haber', followed by a past participle.
I hope that makes sense and that I am correct in my explanation!

Ojalá is a word derived from Arabic used in Spanish today....
Ojalá que= I hope that...

Take care!!!!
Cuídate!!!
The phrase ojalá que is always followed by a dependent phrase cast in the subjunctive mood.

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