Qual è la differenza tra We had been in Japan before e We have been in Japan before ?Sentiti libero di rispondere con un esempio.

Which one you should use depends on the sentence.

If you just want to tell someone you've been to Japan, you would say "we have been to Japan before".


But if you're talking about a point of time in the past, you say "we had been to Japan before."
For example, if you're talking about a time in the past when you went to Japan, and you say "We had been to Japan before", that means that it wasn't the first time you'd been to Japan. You'd been there before as well.

10 years ago, you had never been to Japan before.
Then 5 years ago, you went to Japan.
3 years ago, you had been to Japan before.
Now, you have been to Japan before.