To refer to ongoing states and conditions…

… we use present perfect continuous.

Subject	has/have been	verb + ing	complement
We	have been	playing video games	for 2 hours

For / Since

How long

I’ve been studying French since I was a kid.
They’ve been playing tennis for the last 3 hours.
Mike has been playing the guitar for hours.

Time to practice!

How long have you been studying English?

I have been studying English since I was in elementary school and throughout my academic history, but in that time I wasn’t interested in learning English, it was only a requisite. Now, I have been studying English by choice, here at Platzi, for a year now.

Summary of this class

We use perfect present continuous to talk about ongoing states and conditions.

Structure:

Subject + has/have been + ver-ing + complement

The complement answers the questions:

For / since

How long

Examples:

I have been reading for one year.
She has been studying for the exam for three hours.
They’ve been watching movies since yesterday.