Depressing Spanish Lesson

Last week I finished up with the review of all the various things I studied but never learned in high school and college: present tense, preterite, imperfect, and future.

We moved into the conditional tense and my teacher said, "This is the most important tense in Guatemala because everything in Guatemala is conditional."

As in, "The new president would improve security and social services in Guatemala, but he remembers how the military shot his uncle 36 times back in '79." Or, "Guatemala would have potable water, but that isn't the sort of project the IMF will fund here." (I don't know that for a fact, I'm just guessing.)

So anyway, in a nutshell, the conditional tense.

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