“He’s a native Portuguese speaker. Writing in another language can be difficult because the way you normally put things is different in other languages.”
Portuguese is a tough language, at least to me.
The placement of verbs is tricky when switching between languages, sometimes it goes before the noun, sometimes after. Then there are the tenses!
There are three main verb tenses: past, present, and future. In English, each of these tenses can take four main aspects: simple, perfect, continuous (also known as progressive), and perfect continuous.
Portuguese has SIX tenses!
Then there are the articles, definite articles and Dear Lord Above the conjugations!!
After studying Portuguese on my own for a year I can say I’ll never wonder why foreigners can’t speak simple English.
actually even more tenses if you include all the subjunctives also. but no one uses certain ones (e.g. future subjunctive) outside of legal documents. spanish/port. also have 2 past tenses, the best model I had for them (with exceptions) is the ‘single action past tense’ and the ‘used to do this (ongoing)’ tense.