Quote:
Originally Posted by Xanthe
Ah, thank you for that! That's been my problem, too, with the grammar of other languages; I simply don't know what all those tense names refer to and apparently I have a mental block regarding learning them. My brain sort of stops after past, present and future.  |
Learn some Asian languages, like Chinese. They don't have tenses. You just add something like "yesterday" or "tomorrow", they also have a simple word that you can add to a sentence to indicate that everything happened in the past. Europeans have build up these hugely complicated grammatical structures that are not really necessary for understanding. You only start to realize that once you step outside of that circle.