How to express what's happening right now in Spanish

Learn Spanish Tenses: Actions that are happening currently. In this video, I will teach you to how to express actions that are happening at the time you are speaking. You will learn that the present simple in Spanish is not used to express an action that is happening at the moment you are speaking. Instead, you will need a combination of verbs: the verb “to be” -- “estar”, and your actual action. Por ejemplo, “I am running” -- “estoy corriendo”, “I am cooking” -- “estoy cocinando”, “I am thinking” -- “estoy pensando”. I am doing all those things while saying I am doing all those things. You will learn how to build this tense. In fact, it is a combination of Spanish verbs and it is usually called the Spanish gerund, gerundio. You will soon see that this Spanish verb combination tense is simpler than you think. Spanish verbs always end with either “ar”, “er”, or “ir”. These are the three conjugations. They are always referred to as first conjugation -- “primera conjugación”, “ar”; second conjugation -- “segunda conjugación”, “er”; third conjugation -- “tercera conjugación”, “ir”. Place the first conjugation in one jar. Take the second and third conjugations and place them together in another jar. Why? Well because the second and third are BFFs, and do not like the first conjugation because the first conjugation in Spanish is a snob. In fact, they hang out with different people: "ar" hangs out with “ando”. The others, “er” and “ir” go out with “iendo”. Do you want to know where, how, and why the verbs that end with “ar”, “er”,
“ir” in Spanish hang out with “ando” and “iendo”? Then watch this lesson!
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