What if we just all kept our current languages, but created a global second language for everyone to learn? It would help with international economy, diplomacy, and relations.
Quote: "The imperfect and "regular"(not sure whether you mean present perfect or simple past) are both necessary to have. Ironic to your statement, in French both tenses are said the same anyway (imperfect and simple past).
Imperfect = I was walking.
Simple past = I walked.
Present Perfect = I have walked."
I was talking about Imperfect and simple past (or preterite, as it's called in spanish)
. In spanish they are said different, I was walking (or I walked sometimes): "Caminaba", I walked: "Camine" (with an accent on the e, don't know how to do accents on computers
) those are what each of those mean, except imperfect can also mean "I walked", depending on the situation. I'm not just talking about that (or just European languages either, it's just easier for me to point them out because English is natural to me, so it's harder to notice the rules
), but another example would be the "subjunctive". Used for saying something like: "I want you to eat". In spanish they say: "Yo quiero que comas". Translated directly: I want that you eat (with eat being in a different form, normally "you eat" is "comes", but it is conjugated differently because its a different form of the word. Things like those just seem uneccesary to me, and make languages more complicated
.
I also think that English (including American's) should learn foreign languages earlier, like other countries learn English, but the problem is: there's so many. English has become a nearly global language among develped countries, so if you know it, you can communicate with a majority of people in any developed country across the globe. With any other language however: Spanish, French, German, Russian, Mandarin, Italian, they are all unique to only a few countries, none of which are really considered "world superpowers" (no offense
).
