The thing is, Hungarian isn’t my 2nd language.....Its supposed to get easier once you’ve learned a foreign language. You have to learn things about the structure of your own native language to do it and you learn how languages are put together. So it should get easier.
Hungarian was still fiendishly hard.
Your explanation was an excellent one, and something I didn’t fully understand (the concept of changing the tense variably in a sentence to accentuate a meaning-that made my head swim!