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Why English Speakers Keep Looking for Tenses in Chinese — Even When Time Is Already Clear
Why English Speakers Keep Looking for Tenses in Chinese — Even When Time Is Already Clear
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Why English Speakers Keep Looking for Tenses in Chinese — Even When Time Is Already Clear

“We often think a language has failed to express time when it has merely refused to put time where our own language taught us to look for it.”— Tymur Levitin An English speaker sees a Chinese verb and asks a perfectly reasonable question: Is this present, past, or future? The problem is that the question […]

Tymur Levitin | LEVITIN SCHOOL Tymur Levitin
• 31.10.2026 • 13 min read
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