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OldBoring wrote:because grammar suck
speak langauge good grammar no need
kevin wrote:Car analogies are supposed to be faulty.
Polyglotus_Maximus wrote:Hello, everyone. I am new here.
I noticed a lot of online resources treating grammar like an unwanted child.
Personally, I believe learning grammar is a must, if you want to learn a language.
I hate those courses, which make you remember whole sentences without explaining the grammar.
I love grammar, it helps me make my own sentences and reduces my study time.
Maybe some people have school trauma, or something?
Now, there are grammar books that are very convoluted and hard to understand for a layman (if you don't understand specific linguistic vocabulary) , but most grammar explanations in textbooks are pretty easy to understand.
Linguaphile wrote:With self-study that last part (discussion of the grammar rules as they are discovered, and/or correction by the teacher when students aren't using the rules correctly) gets missed.
vijayjohn wrote:Linguaphile wrote:With self-study that last part (discussion of the grammar rules as they are discovered, and/or correction by the teacher when students aren't using the rules correctly) gets missed.
I think that's only true if by "self-study" you mean "not sharing anything you're doing with other people." I think it's fair to say that a lot of people here on UniLang study languages by themselves, without a tutor or anything, but still get corrections (sometimes) from native speakers and definitely still discuss grammar rules.
Polyglotus_Maximus wrote:Hello, everyone. I am new here.
I noticed a lot of online resources treating grammar like an unwanted child.
Personally, I believe learning grammar is a must, if you want to learn a language.
I hate those courses, which make you remember whole sentences without explaining the grammar.
I love grammar, it helps me make my own sentences and reduces my study time.
Maybe some people have school trauma, or something?
Now, there are grammar books that are very convoluted and hard to understand for a layman (if you don't understand specific linguistic vocabulary) , but most grammar explanations in textbooks are pretty easy to understand.
IpseDixit wrote:I still cringe a bit thinking about the times I told people learning Italian that there is no rule on when to use il and when lo and that they just had to memorize what the right article is for each single word.
vijayjohn wrote:I'm totally the kind of person who would walk 1000 km on foot just to avoid learning to drive a car.
Linguaphile wrote:I've studied several languages for which there aren't native speakers or even non-native speakers or learners on this board.
linguoboy wrote:I was well into adulthood before I learned there was a rule on the alternation of the /ðiː/ and /ðə/ pronunciations of the.
voron wrote:Guess how much input a learner would require to internalize it
voron wrote:Turkish has dozens of syntactical quirks like that.
Vlürch wrote:Now I'm really interested. Is there any site that explains them, or if you could arse to post some?
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