Post #2146626
2026-05-06 06:51 UTC
I just wrapped up another English lesson with the farm Lao workers. They've been practicing making small talk with customers. It's a small farm with a ceramic studio on site, and the aim is for it to grow through added tourism, hence the English lesson.
Lao language has no verb tenses, so today we talked about the phrase "used to." 1/2...
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@jilleduffy@mastodon.social 2026-05-06 06:53
The construction is simple (used to + root verb), but the concept is surprisingly hard to explain. I remember learning the equivalent in Spanish (solía que...) and understanding quickly since English has a direct translation. But it was tricky for some of my students! "It's something that you did many times in the past, but you no longer do," I said, though it also works for things that were continuous but no longer are ("I used to be a little girl"). I'm excited to keep working on this one