The continuous tense causes me no end of confusion in day to day pt… formal I am OK…
We have all the technical grammatically correct stuff .. present continuous, past, perfect..subs blah blah… but its not a direct translation with English…
I am not primarily interested in writing… just day to day real informal conversation…some people and AI tell me present continuous with a concept of time is all you need… e.g. estou a trabalhar aqui ha tres dias… meaning I have been working here for 3 days… vs the technically correct tenho estado a trabalhar aqui ha tres dias…natives pls help…
but you hear ter andado blah blah…
But I hear the other forms being used…
Please help, what is best approach to learning this tricky tense…