Most monolingual speakers think that other languages are basically just their language
with different words in a slightly different order and maybe a different way of writing.
Turns out, though, that there are lots of interesting features in other languages, some of which English would really benefit from having.
I'm going to talk about four of them.
Number one: Time-independence.
If you want to describe an activity in English you have to say when it happened or when it will happen.
You have to. That's how verbs conjugate.
There is no way in English to describe the concept of a person and dancing, but not to mention anything about time.
Chinese, on the other hand. Verbs don't conjugate.
In most cases, the meaning is obvious from context.
