Hi. The first phrase may make sense depending on the context: "hasta el otro año entro" It may be: "hasta el otro año entro... a la escuela" which means "I'll start to go to school "until" the next year" The second phrase, in my opinion is actually right, in the sense that people may understand you, perhaps is not the perfect grammatical way to say it, but it makes sense to me. "hasta ahora que veo tu mensaje" or "hasta ahora veo tu mensaje" may be translated as "I didn't see your message until now" however, a better way to say it would be "no vi tu mensaje hasta ahora". That way it even resembles more the English version. Remember, people don't speak perfectly in daily conversation, so it's useful to learn this sort of expressions too. The word "HASTA" may has different uses in Spanish that the word "UNTIL" in English does not. They already wrote some examples in the answers. Here are some more: -Él comió muchas cosas, *hasta* se comió una rana. He ate a lot of things, he *even* ate a frog. -El hombre *llegó hasta* la luna Man *reached* the moon -¡*Hasta* que te encuentro! I *finally* found you! -¿Debemos ir *hasta* allá? Do we have to go *all the way* there?

Hi, first of all, the correct sentence is: "¿Dónde está el baño?" or "¿Dónde están los baños?" if you are speaking in plural. People usually speak the least possible, so in some places it is likely that you will hear something like "on' ta'l baño", especially since they want to go to the restroom! Saying only 4 syllables. Now, in Spanish (I don't know in English), there's this stylistic device called "sinalefa" which allows a poet to merge the last syllable of a word if it ends with a vowel with the first of the next one if it begins with a vowel again, so the verse can fit better in some contexts. Example: -Su ma-no es gran-de -Su ma-noes gran-de In spoken language we tend to do this, as you correctly noted in your question. When we speak fast we merge syllables without noticing. this happens in every Spanish variety. That's just how people speak, sometimes is hard, but once you master it you'll be able to understand a lot! Good luck!

thank you very much! can you please tell me the literal translation too? google translates it as "Straighten power" I'm not sure if that's right

Thank you very much!