Usually, when we think of verb tenses, we think of past, present and future. However, there's another tense, the conditional tense, that doesn't fit neatly in any of those categories. Sometimes known in Spanish as the futuro hipotético, it is usually the equivalent of using the auxiliary verb "would" in English to refer to a hypothetical action.
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When I looked at the Spanish conditional tense, I could see how much I have forgotten of my Spanish. A decade of hardly not using it, and of course slowly creeping age doesn’t help at all.
I still think that the French language is so much more difficult than Spanish, but I know that I still have to work a lot on my Spanish in order to have a feeling for this beloved language again.