Don't think I've given ya'll a Spanish lesson in a while..

This is mostly because I think it's useful to remember, and it's less 'cool' or about bad words or fun slang.

If you want to say something like, 'I've been working there for 5 years' or 'I've been here in Spain for 3 months', you say Llevo 3 meses aquí en España.

The verb 'llevar' literally means to carry or to wear.. So it's kind of like you're saying I carry 3 months here.. which in a weird way makes plenty of sense!

Also, if you want to say something took a long time.. I'm pretty sure you can't actually use the verb 'tomar' which means to take.. So, to say, 'I take a long time to do whatever', you'd say 'Tardo mucho tiempo..' And the verb 'tardar' means like.. to delay. So..

OH
Here's something I've been meaning to write down too. A lot of the time, my host mom will be telling a story, and talking about something someone said, but what that person said isn't super important or she doesn't remember it all. So she'll be like 'Y me dijo que tiene que hacer esto .... y No sé qué... no sé cuánto...' 

And what I've gotten from context clues, 'No sé qué, no sé cuánto' is basically 'BLAH BLAH BLAH THIS AND THAT WHATEVER BLAH BLAH' in Spanish. 

NOW YOU KNOW.