To be fair, verb tenses in English are so easy compared to Spanish, it's not really the same required effort. As a native English speaker I found learning other languages a shock for how verbs change so dramatically according to context.
Of course this is just a stepping stone, but why try to duplicate (or more) everything when what you most need is proper sentence structure in the present tense and vocabulary.
Although maybe there are some languages where this is not true, not the ones I studied (briefly or not). But in my experience it is also true for people speaking bad German (talking mostly self-taught or from basic courses, not for white collar jobs with large amounts of written text) - perfectly understandable, just no tenses.