About your native speaker: I don't think he deceived you on purpose, people really manage to mess up their grammar through slang,l33t sp3ak, and texting. And another grammar error: It's "read" not "readed". Its spelled the same, but pronounced "red"
This little penguin went to the jungle, this little penguin stayed in the tundra, this little penguin had turtle, this little penguin had none, this little penguin went "AHHHH!!!!", until he exploded.
Or have we... ;)