Correlation between Russian and English - part 3 - How we were taught English? Do you know what we have at very first English lesson? We get information that unlike us, English have 12(24)-32 Times (form of verbs, but in Russian we call it as Time, for what reason I have no idea). I.e. Main Time, like Past, Present and Future, and 4 types of verb forms: Simple, Continuous, Perfect, Perfect Continuous. If you multiply one to another you get 12 Times. Some teachers also had added more “Times” to that stuff like future in the past. So quick googling gave me info that biggest amount is 32 Times (12 for looosers). And if you forget that there are 3 types of sentences, like statement question and negative you have made a mistake. So Present Simple is not equal to one piece of “Time”; there are affirmatives, questions and negative sentences. Present Simple = 3 pieces of “Times” or 3 Times (sick!) 12 Times = 36 cells in spreadsheets with explanations. OMG guys who had had 32 “Times” probably got 32*3=96 cells. I don't know if this spreadsheet is clear for native speakers, but this is complete nightmare and it is only The Simple Tense. But ok, even in this case, I can assume that we would get a proper result, if time spend amount is decent, but instead that we have been spending hours for rhyming irregular verbs, so everyone know see-saw-seen-break-broke-broken, but again we can only “London is the capital of Great Britain”. So instead of: -General basis of sentence making; -Declensions, Conjugation; -Syntax!; -Conjugation (level 2), adverbs, participles, gerund and punctuation; -Game+ mode. We have: -General basis + conjugation in each time (meh); -Rhyming; -Rhyming; -Rhyming; -Rhyming. I have probably overreacted a bit, you may feel my pain when you had spent 20 years for studying and only then you realized that tense is not equal to Time, English do not have special brains, and Tense is just a form of verb.