Do Spanish native speakers use all the tenses in Spanish?

Yes. we use them in a daily manner. If you get something written in Spanish, you will find all the tenses used. And don't be surprised if you find more than ten different tenses in a short paragraph. This is the reason why Spanish grammar is maybe one of the most difficult than exist, and it is also the reason why learning Spanish is so hard for no Spanish speakers.

We can do it because of brain plasticity. If someone begins to learn a skill in early age, no matter how difficult that skill can be, the brain organizational systems develop in complexity according to the skill requeriments. So, millions of new brain conections are formed and work as functional systems to process the information needed.

Yes, Spanish grammar is bizarre. But such a caractheristic explains why Spanish is more beautiful than English and why English is more practical than Spanish. As you can see, there are advanteges and troubles in every case.

Nice to answer.

A Costa Rican native and Spanish speaker. Improving my English in advanced courses.

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No, I have yet to meet the future subjunctive outside literary texts of the 18th century and earlier and doubt that more than a very few very well educated Spanish speakers could even tell you its forms (it is not even on your list!). This is one of its differences from Poruguese, where the future subjunctive is still in normal everyday use. The historic pluperfect has replaced the past subjunctive in most of Spain and all of the Americas. I don't recall meeting the plural of the imperative outside Spain.

But suggesting that English is somehow "easier" than Spanish? Can you be serious? How many foreigners have you met capable of knowing, e.g., when to use the present simple versus the present continous in English, use the proper tense after "since" or comply with the sequence of tenses: matters that the native speaker has mastered before he or she turns five?

Future Indicative Spanish

Yes Spanish is very complex.I am sure that after learning Spanish most of my life I will never be good enough.Maybe compared to many other languages Spanish is easier to learn for an English speaker. I have met many Spanish speakers that could not even read or write.I am quite sure they did not use all the proper grammar either.Yes people speak very fast in Spanish because of breath groups and dropped letters and other parts of words.Yes Spanish is written phonetically but that may be true for a single spoken word but it is not so with fast spoken sentences.

No, it's not true! The onlypeople that speak do spanish are...the spaniards, we in the Americas speak Castellano (a modified spanish if you will) and each Country in latin America speaks a diferent castellano having some similarities but more differences, the terminologies of one Country might not be understood by a national of a farther region of latin America, that also aspires top the use of verbs and the tense they're ben used on. Example in Mexico the word mina means mine in Argentina it refers to a young female also the context plays a role, but throw the word alone and you'll have some confused people. I honestly believe that the percentage of people that speaks the grammar close to spanish is in the low 5 % in all latin america.

People can argue all they want but just for the benefit of the doubt ask individuals from diferent geographic regions of latin america how they will write a certain sentence in spanish, but giving the sentence in english using verbs and past tense.

Yes, we use all that tenses every day, without thinking.

Some people says that spanish is easy because they think that if Latin America is poor then their inhabitants have less education, so their language must be "very easy" to learn and speak.

Spanish is way more dificult to learn to an english speaker that english to a spanish speaker.

i'm mexican, well i've been living in México for 9 years and i speak spanish fluently and yes, people always uses all the tenses cause that's how this language is,if we don't use them, the whole conversation or sentence wouldn't have any sense. Probably it's because we are used to the language and how to speak it, so we don't have to think so much before we start talking. It's ironic cause at least i don't know the name of the tenses nor their rules, but actually i speak it with no problem at all with all of its conjugations.

yo ya habria ido (i would've go already)

el ha estado alla (has he been there?)

lo hubiera hecho si no hubiera pasado (i would've done it if that hadn't happened)

lo has entendido? (did you get it)

el hecho de haberlo dicho (the fact that i/you/he/she/we/they said that)

of course there are a few ways to say something in a different way in spanish, it is optional :D that's why i love spanish

Yes, we do. But we don't know the all the names:

Here they are:

Present Indicative

Command (both tu affirmative and the rest)

Preterite: ayer "comí" carne

Imperfect: "tenía" el pelo rojo

Future Indicative: this is an unusual tense: Mañana "iré" a la playa.

Conditional: This one is also unusual: "vería" mejor con lentes.

Present Progressive: Ahora "estoy" cocinando.

Past Progressive: "Estaba" viendo tele.

Present Subjunctive: Espero que "tengas" un buen día

Past Subjunctive: Si "estuviera" cansado, dormiría

Present Perfect, this is more common in Spain: "He viajado" por horas

Past Perfect: Yo había puesto el martillo sobre la mesa.

Conditional Perfect: el presidente "habría llegado" a África esta tarde.

Future Perfect: ¿"Habrá" llegado mi Pedro?

Present Perfect Subjunctive (haya + ado/ido): Espero que hayas tenido suerte.

Past Perfect Subjunctive (hubiera + ado/ido): "Hubiera comido", pero no alcancé.

And we use different names for them.

English also has many tenses:

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/tenses

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