Episode 30 Futurate vs. will-future

Hello folks!

This week I’m back with some errors that I routinely hear in my classes. While the present simple can be used to refer to the future in both German and English, Germans (or at least my students) use it far more frequently than English native speakers do. Am I the only person who thinks that the German Präsens is slowly replacing the Futur 1? If this is the case, does it explain why my students frequently use the futurate in instances that call for the will-future in English. Let me know what you think in the comments.

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