English vs Spanish

[nocturnus33]

I hate how bad I am with English verbs conjugations. I'd just need to remember I know how to conjugate them in Spanish, maybe I'd be less intimidated by them.

Comments

[dhw]

Wow, that's a lot of conjugations in Spanish - I'm afraid, as a language, it is more or less a complete mystery to me (I learnt German, French and Latin at school). I really ought to learn some Spanish - at least the basics - as it really is a rather shameful gap in my knowledge.

[mywitch.livejournal.com]

oh for once English is the lesser of two evils! lol

[hikorichan.livejournal.com]

I'd argue that they missed a several verb tenses on the English one, e.g, will do, was done, had done, have done, will have done, will be doing, was doing, is doing, have been working, had been working, will have been working ;)

[delphipsmith]

I don't think Americans ever learn to "conjugate" our verbs, we just sort of pick them up as we go along. I did learn to conjugate Latin verbs, though:

amo, amas, amat
amamus, amatis, amant...

And then there is the hic haec hoc song :)