I have to go back to teaching on Monday, and the gods of teaching have prepared a nice surprise for me: I’m just in time to introduce the present perfect subjunctive to the students. This is my most favorite tense of all Spanish tenses, but for some mysterious reason I never get to be the one to bring it to the students for the very first time. When they get to me, they have usually been acquainted with it in a very uninspired and boring manner, and it gets very hard to explain why this is a very exciting tense.
Present perfect subjunctive doesn’t exist in English but if it did, you’d encounter it in sentences like this:
I’m happy that the students haven’t started learning this tense yet.
The bolded purple part is where the present perfect subjunctive would be. It’s a present emotion directed towards the past, which makes for very interesting in-class activities.
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Just hearing you talk about this makes me want to take a Spanish class with you. Enthusiasm is contagious.
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