I'm just trying to... well, obtain a language partner, for lack of a better word... Hm, I'm really not sure what an appropriate word would be.

Anyway, they are native but clearly floundering in the convoluted system of written tenses, and I'm... well, an intermediate learner at best (taking all the skills together)... It kind of feels like a mind game. For some reason I want to make an analogy that imagine if we suddenly decided to communicate in verse (rhyming, that is).