I think students share similar frustration as their teachers. As a Chinese as L1 speaker, there was no existence of the “Verb Tense” concept in my head. It was simply the most frustrating thing to learn (and I still make mistakes and get frustrated with it at times after living in the U.S. for many years), also because it is in every English sentence. Knowing the rules and passing the tests are definitely not enough.

This is why I think people should use English, baby! I deeply believe that we learn language through using it. What we learned in classes was valuable to establish a framework, but the languages really comes alive when they are used. English, baby! offers a fun and encouraging environment for students to use what they learned in class in real life. I think it helps the development of students’ Interlanguage toward English.