The present participle is an easy thing to know and remember.
Basically, whenever you want to say that you or someone else is
doing something, you use the present participle. For example, if
you say "I am speaking" in English, then you would say "Estoy
hablando" in Spanish. First, you must learn and memorize the
conjugation of the verb estar. Estar means "to be." That's not
the complete and total truth, but we'll leave it at that. First,
here's the conjugation chart for estar. The reason that estar is
so important to learn is that it is necessary to express the
participle both in the present and the past. In English, you
would say, "I am talking." In Spanish, you would say something
quite similar. Since the estar means "to be." Its conjugated
forms mean "I am," "you are," "he is," and so on. So the way to
say I am talking is to use the conjugated form of estar (estoy,
in this case) and then slap the participle on the end of the
sentence to make it whole. Now the only think you've to learn is
how to make the p