Machaho Tellem Chaho

"Most things get done tomorrow but not." ~ me. I’ve been  here  for about two months now. My status so far… the pace of my walk is still too fast, my Derja is abysmally poor, my Kabyle equates to French with hand signs and I can’t decode men/women interactions. I have noticed that I use the future tense a great deal ( rah  this,  rah  that) while the Derja speakers I’ve met so far don’t use it that much, even little. I’m of course thus far translating my English and French thoughts into a broken tongue and this is where my future tense-abuse stems from.  In English and French, we use the future tense quite frequently I now realise. Instead of the future it is the active participle that  I’m hearing  being used , or the simple present, in situations where my corrupted ears expect a   sawfa   equivalent (the active participle corresponds or is similar to the English present continuous I’m ….-ing ).  If I were ...