English Language
English - everybody says this is one of the easiest language in the world. And I appreciate it. English hasn't got difficult grammar and vocabulary is easy too - we hear everyday a lot of English words in songs, tv, radio, internet or even on things in your home - they have an information for example about a way of using any machine.
However, sometimes there's something which I can't understand well. I've started learning English for about 12 years and I still have problems with understand English way of thinking. In school we have books - a very expensive and very useless. We are doing only exercises, sometimes we're doing some speaking but that's not giving us satisfaction and any further English skills. And in every test are questions about tenses (you have sentence and you have to fill empty places with correct form, it's really confusing) I'm really get tired, when I see three forms next to each another and then you think about all these tenses and in that moment everything seems to be right or wrong.
Lastly I was searching for answer to my question "what is the difference between 'i have heard' and 'i heard'" and internet says that both form have this same meaning.
Now I'm so confused and angry, past simple and present perfect make me cry.
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English Language
English - everybody says this is one of the easiest languages in the world. . and I appreciate it. English hasn't got difficult grammar and the vocabulary is easy too - we hear every day a lot of English words in songs, on tv, radio, the internet, or even on things in your home - they have an information/instructions, for example, about how to use/a way of using any machine.However, sometimes there's something which I can't understand well. I've been started learning English for about 12 years, and I still have problems with understanding the English way of thinking. In school we have books - a very expensive and very useless. We are doing only exercises, sometimes we're doing some speaking, but that's not giving us satisfaction, and or [any further]/improving our English skills. And In every test are questions about tenses (you have a sentence, and you have to fill the empty places with the correct form; it's really confusing) I'm [really] get really tired, when I see three forms next to each another, and then you think about all these tenses, and in that moment everything seems to be both right or and wrong.
Lastly Lately/Recently I was searching for the answer to my question "what is the difference between 'I have heard' and 'I heard'" and the internet says that both forms have theis same meaning.
Now I'm so confused and angry, past simple and present perfect make me cry.
I sympathise with you; they are confusing and difficult, and often, though not always, interchangeable. A useful rule is that if the action or situation described is still going on, then the present perfect is appropriate :
'I have been learning/ I have learnt English for 12 years' ; 'I have found it difficult'.
If the action is finished and no longer taking place, then use the simple past : 'I learnt English for 12 years' ; 'I found it difficult'.
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English has some traps and it's hard for non-native English speakers, but I think that grammar in general is easy, there isn't noun declension and verb conjugation.
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Interesting, because from what I've heard from non-native English speakers, it's one of the harder languages because of all the rules and exceptions. There are many, many things about English that don't seem very logical (and really aren't). So don't feel frustrated, because you actually write English very well, well enough that I can understand the nuance of what you're saying.
Regarding your question about the difference between 'i have heard' and 'i heard'. Both are past tense because of the word 'heard'. If it was present tense it would be 'I hear'. There really is no real difference between 'i have heard' and 'i heard'.
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