"Ivan Vegvary" wrote in message
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Well, English is my third language. I have found that many foreign
speakers of English are much more aware of correct grammar than
natives. They think more analytically when forming sentences in their
non-native tongue. Look at all the young spelling bee winners. They
are almost always foreign born.

Ivan Vegvary

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I didn't really understand English grammar until I learned the Latin,
French and German that it developed from.

I also didn't notice until recently that English has both a future
perfective and an imperfective aspect (done / doing) functionally
equivalent to the Russian po- prefix, and a verb tense that doesn't
imply past, present or future time somewhat like the Greek Aorist.
jsw