Thread: How many books should you read to become fluent in a second language?
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Old 06-02-2012, 02:41 AM   #30
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Originally Posted by Rizla View Post
I dislike reading French because of the use of literary tenses. They have something like five or six!
According to my English teacher, English has 13 tenses. My classmates were scared shitles when they heard ;-)

If you look at this nice round-up, it is more like 17 ;-)
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/gra...enses_satz.htm
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