"Long time no see" in Spanish! 4 ways to talk about time in Spanish

Learn Spanish! I will teach you four different ways to say how long you have been doing something in Spanish. For example, in English you would say: “Long time no see”, or “I have studied Spanish for the last two years”, or “I have been going to the bathroom at midnight since I was 13”, etc. In this video, you will learn these temporal structures but in Spanish, which is very useful because 1. You will be able to start a conversation in Spanish, and 2. You will have a recipe to start speaking Spanish: HACE+(TIME)+QUE+VERB IN PRESENT, PAST, OR IMPERFECT. This rule really works and will help you jump to the next level in your Spanish studies. I will also teach you some important words related to time structures in Spanish. For example, the day before yesterday, “antier” or “anteayer”, the day after tomorrow, “pasado mañana”, not this weekend but the following weekend, “el fin de semana que viene”, or every other day, “un día sí y un día no” or “cada tercer día”. This lesson is very useful and you will end up speaking as a native Spanish speaker does. If not, pretty close to a native Spanish speaker. And if not, I will give your money back. And if not, I will go to a Mexican jail. And if not, I will be extradited.
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Con amor,
Ana

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i was taking a lot of lessons in Spanish from TH-cam and saw many teachers but the best one was you ...
thank you Anna

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Si, es muy mucho importante para mi porque quiero saber sobre El Espanol pero no estoy acostumbrado A hablar y aprender todos los Dias, pero Ahora voy A aprender cada manana. Me gusta muy mucho El Espanol. Gracias por ayudarme y hasta luego..!

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I can learn spanish and english simultaneously. Cool stuff )

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I hope to one day speak Spanish like she speaks English

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You’ll have the accent locked down then

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And, You are the best Spanish teacher on TH-cam 😺😺😺

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Gracias por todos, maestra!!!!!

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Most of all i like lessons like this one!

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When i saw the length of the video i said holy fucking shit! But i stayed because she’s a good teacher and the cutest teacher I’ve ever seen in my life!

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I enjoy your explanation of the sentence structure. Keep up the good work.

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I'm honest, I'm not sure if I pronounce it well, but when you watch your videos you give me back the motivation to follow more and more

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Me gusta los clases aquí... I am very much thankful to you Ana Ji.
You are helping me a lot.

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Great job Ana!! Very easy for me to learn.

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I love your lessons Ana!

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Hey. Thanks for the video! Could you please do one on the differences between ‘ir’ and ‘irse’? Gracias 😊

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Very good teacher

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I love how slow u teach. I’m a beginner I just wanted to Thank u.

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Another great video from my favorite teacher.

[@luke28]

Hola Ana!
Sería posible que nos enseñas sobre el subjuntivo! Muchos amigos míos de Latino America usanlo pero para mí es muy dificil entender!
Muuuuchas gracías por tus clases! Las me ayudan mucho!
xoxo Luke

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Best teacher ever and cute too...😀

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I have to say,you teaching very well💕great teacher😍TE AMO MUCHO💕💕💕💞

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is she teaching mexican spanish

[@SanthoshKumar-iw4vo]

or spain spanish

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+Santhosh Kumar thanks 💪💖bro.

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Great lesson

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Holà Ana! Me gusta muchooooo tu canal ! Muchisimas gracias para ayudarme con tus videos ! Espero que todo vaya bien para tí 😉 Besos de España 😚 Hasta Pronto 🤗

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Muchas gracias por tus buenos deseos y hasta pronto :)

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la profesora muy bien!

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yo miro tus videos y yo hago progreso gracias a ti ana !
me alegro !
A fin de cuentas , tu me das ganas de venir en mexico !
Besos !

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A fin de cuentas, por ti me dan ganas de ir a México!

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Love from Filipinas!

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Bonita Ana, puede Usted hacer unos clases nuevos para aprender Espanol con canciones, por exemplo, de entradas de telenovelas mexicanas. Usted puede escribir el texto de cancion y nosotros aprendimos los palabras de cancion y todo significado. Muchisimas gracias por su trabajo!

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Ótima aula ana.

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Wow this is amazing. I love the way you teach.

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i face too much problm when i go to visit my doctor especially..so plz if u have some lectures about medical or doctor patient conversation..plz upload that.thanx alot...u r sch a gud teacher.excellent👍👍

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Gracias querida Ana

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Superb lesson.

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Loved it.

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I love you channel especially because i want to travel around the world and know what I’m talking a bd others are talking about lol

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Muchas gracias Ana por esta video, todo esta claro y muy explicado. Quiero preguntarte si existe otras reglas sobre la palabra "hacia". Hasta luego adorable profesor.

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Muy bien lección. Mucho gracia

Awesome Video! Thank you for posting! Easy to understand and clear :)

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Gracias!

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i want to learn spanish..i m in Spain join the school bt i m nt satify about that..plz help me out to learn spanish ..u way of teaching is easy nd gud..👍👍

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Muchas gracias, Maria.

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Thanks teacher🌸
Hacía mucho tiempo que no aprendía español 😔

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Muchas gracias me hermana

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Thank you so much !!
Diez mil Besos a usted !!!

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Gracias Ana

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I needed this video, gracias maestra!

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Muchas gracias ❤

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Thanks!

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Thanks!

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muchas gracias Ana

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Fantastico

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Hache un anos que hablo espagñol! Ça veut dire que depuis une anée j'apprends l'espagnol!

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Gracias for la leccion!

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Kumbias

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hace mucho tiempo que sigo tus cursos en youtube Anna y Cada vez estás más hermosa.

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Hola Anna! Ami me gusta la classe de espanol muchissima😘😍

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gracias

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Gracias cariño

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Continue, please, thanks to you, improve my Spanish a lot. HOLA SIGE ASO POR FAVOR YO CRE QUE NO SOY MU BUENO CRE QUE LO PRINICE MAL

[@tcpip9999]

You are a great teacher ! But the correct English is 'I've been teaching English for eight years', or 'it's been eight years since I started teaching English'.

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Lo voy a corregir :) gracias por decirme. Saludos.

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You make my day

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Angel teaching Spanish😍

[@tombarrett3481]

Ana, thank you for your excellent teaching. I have a request for a future video: I am always confused which word to use when saying "was" ... for example... is it "fue" "era" "estaba" ??? I always struggle with "was" thank you for your time

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Lo amo!

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muchas gracias

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I love it

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Love r videos🙏🏽😁Gracias 👍🏽

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Saludos desde egypto ti amo ana

[@мирвовсеммире-ы1и]

¿Se puede usar el verbo llevar en vez de desde hace?

[@suach03]

muchas gracias.. te quiero.. te extrano cada dia.. me encanta ana.. te amo u r such a darling ana...😘😘😘
plz make more videos on using d verbs in past n future tense it helps a lot in speaking plz ana like today's class was very useful..

[@Thekaiser4100]

Probably worth pointing out that the first sentence is akin to saying “I’ve been teaching Spanish for eight years”

[@pep590]

Yes, I was just noticing the poor English sentence structure.

[@guppiefang]

Thanks, I came to comments to ask about that. The English is grammar in here translation is not correct, so it was a bit confusing.

[@ariolagranolabars9704]

can you do a basics video like how to structure sentences in general and how its diffrent from english?

[@gdiroll]

Gracias por el video!

[@ButterflySpanish]

Gracias a ti por verlo :)

[@tsizzle6228]

I'm confused. Does this mean we can use both "desde hace" or "hace + tiempo + que + verbo" to say the same thing?

[@pingpong6861]

In the third scenario where you were trying to explain when to use hacía, I see you struggled a bit. It is very simple. Hacía is used when you are telling a story, in which everything happened in the past. Ex: I went to visit my aunt 2 weeks ago. It had been a year since I had seen her. Visité a mi tía hace 2 semanas. Hacía un año que no la veía.

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Gracias

[@ButterflySpanish]

Gracias a ti :)

[@ondskanbolton28]

Ana please explain how to use "tú, tu, tus, te, ti, contigo"
Te amo

[@Cesargabriel54]

Ondskan Bolton tú= you, tu=your, tus=yours, ti=you, te= you

[@enriquegranados5179]

Yo, me, mi, conmigo.
I, to me, mine, with me.
Tú, te, ti, contigo.
You, to you, for you, with you.
Él, se, si, consigo.
Him, to him, for him, with him.

[@alexxdjr]

hace dos semanas que llevó viendo tus videos

[@selinozturk937]

Can we say por años instead of desde hace años? Are they the same thing?

[@CallmeAshlyn]

I read online that hace + tiempo + que + pasado is not correct grammatically but is used colloquially. Is this true ?

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Maestra de mio......Te extrano tanto !!!##

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I will donate when I get paid. I support channels like this so Ana, get ready to earn money.

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Hola ana Feliz ano nuevo y gracias por compartir este video.
I am your huge frnd because of ur style of teaching such amazing. Eres genial para ensenar espanol y gustaria tener y decirle que porfavor haz activa y pasiva porfavor ana 😂😘 active and passive voice plzz. Te amo mucho ana dios te bendiga siempre espero que haya tenido un buen fin de 2018😂😘

[@marthajohn4695]

Hola Ana,just wanted to be sure because I have been using the words incorrectly like the Hace =AGO, Desde hace=FOR, Desde=SINCE. Please someone help here

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Very good fandango :-)

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Keep flying butterfly...

[@Mecko4711]

More time phrases, please! :)