Hello there, English Learners of the world!

My name is Fernando, and I’m writing to you from Barcelona, Spain. I am an English student here. I have been studying English for a good number of years now, and there is one thing I’ve never managed to get right: this thing called present perfect. I just see that terrible combination verb + participle and immediately, I think. Here we go again… I mean… it’s so confusing! It’s called present, but we use it to talk about the past! Who can understand that? My teacher has also told me that it’s not any kind of past (sure, ‘cause then it would be too easy, right? lol), it has to be a specific one, when we do not know when the action took place. And if that is not enough, there are those words you have to remember, ‘cause they always go together with the perfects: yet, already, just, ever, never, since, for… to be honest, I haven’t memorized when to use them yet (sorry, teacher, lol). And whenever I think I’m getting the idea, something new comes up. Now it’s this present perfect continuous guy. We’ve been seeing it for the past couple of weeks, and that’s a hard one. What I’ve gotten so far, is that it’s got something to do with actions that are still in progress, but I’m not so sure. By the way, I’ve just remember that I have to finish my homework for tomorrow’s class, plus I’ve already taken too much of your time. Well, this is it. My best wishes to all of you, English learners of the world, and thanks for inviting me to write here!

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