Hello! Hola! Kamusta!

Hello! Hola! Kamusta!
 

Hola mi nombre es Stephen Montes pero la gente me llaman Stefano. Soy un Filipino pero ahora vivi en Thailand por 15 anos. Yo creo que esto es el lugar mejores a practicar mi Espanol! Ojala hay algo aqui que es interesado a ayudar me aprender. Puedo tambien ayudar cualquiera con su Ingles o Tagalog y aun Thai!

Hi my name is Stephen Montes but people call me Stefano. I am from the Philippines but I've been living here in Thailand for 15 years. I believe this is the bestplace for me to practice my Spanish and I hope there are people here who are interested to be friends and help me learn the language! :) I can also help anyone who wants to learn English or Tagalog and even Thai!

Sa lahat ng mga taga-Pinas dito, nababasa nyo naman po siguro yung Ingles. Hehe! Sana magtulong-tulong po tayo matuto ng ibang lenguaje! Ingats! :)

Welcome. Spanish is not my native language, but I think all the corrections I made are valid. Others will correct them if they are not. Accent marks are critical in Spanish, and this website makes it easy for you with a dropdown screen marked accents in the upper right hand portion if the screen.

Thank you poli for correcting my Spanish---that's what I needed, after all! Yet I have a few questions about the usage of some words there:

Soy Filipino pero ahora llevo 15 años viviendo en Tailandia

I believe "llevo" means carry/bear/take... so is it really necessary to use it in this sentence?

Ojalá haya alguien aquí que le interesa ayudar me aprender

I assumed that "hay" is a phrase that means "there is" so is "haya" the same thing then or I just really missed something here?

About the "le", is it the linking verb "is" or something else? And how did it get there?

Perdon por mi preguntas muchas! Solamente quiero a aprender más. Y gracias por tu ayuda, specialmente sobre el uso del acentos. :)

If a verb follows ojalá, it must always be in the subjunctive tense and haya is subjunctive of haber.
Llevar is a verb commonly used to measure time spent. Another common one is hacer (hace cinco años que vivo en Nueva York.) I think you can also use pasar. It's spoken word and memory that I'm dealing with, but here's how I think you would say it: Soy Filipino pero he pasado años en Tailándia. Le is an indirect object pronoun.

Welcome to the forums!

In addition to, or in corroboration with, the corrections given by poli, here are others.

Gracias! Estos ha abierto muchos puertos para mi a aprender más del lenguaje Español. :) Es duro pero estoy realmente agradecido por la ayuda!