Is grammar necessary to study?
The education system in English here in my place is practically teaching students how not to make mistakes in grammar.
Seems like it's what all about while studying at junior or senior high.
I can see that's obvious that grammar plays a big role and is basically everywhere no matter in our daily conversation or news article we read.
Teachers evaluate and measure students by score. And I think the reason why they do so is because this is the most easy way to know how our level's at - by putting us into figures.
And so we are good at exams when it comes to English....
But I have to say it truly is a boring subject that students usually dozed off in these classes.
I'm curious that am I going to speak English fluently if I mastered in grammar?
I'm also wondering is there another method besides studying grammar which can also helps us to master this language?
I want to know how other English native speakers learn their English while as a kid.
Search from various English teachers...
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I think that the best way to learn a language is to listen to it and read it over and over and over again, as long as one start not only to understand, but also to have a need to speak. And by repetitions they eventually get even the grammar. I make a lot of mistakes, but there are certain things in English I would no longer say incorrectly. For example, I've heard so many times phrase "an hour" that I would never say something like "a hour" or "one hour". I know that the latter is possible, but it's not very common. Do you know, what I mean?
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Native English speakers learnt English naturally when they were kid, as anybody else learn their mother tongue. Studying English as a second language is completely different. In my opinion listening and reading, speaking very important. I'm not ignoring the grammar either. How to speak or write correctly if don't know grammar rules? :) One of my aims is to use English automaticaly. (Sorry for mistakes, i'm on my way improving English.)
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When I studied Mandarin Chinese we were taught a little grammar. I can't really tell that it helped that much. I think I learned to speak grammatically correct sentences not by learning grammar rules from the textbook but by getting lots of familiarity with the language - by reading a lot and listening a lot. I'm not saying grammar isn't necessary but I wouldn't give it too much importance. More important is understanding what you're reading or listening to. That means understanding the meanings of words. A person could understand grammar perfectly but if he didn't know the meanings of the words being used, he's not going to understand anything.
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I learned Afrikaans through being exposed to Afrikaans-speaking people and media, not through learning a bunch of rules. I think learning it in a natural way is always better! But I think it's important, if learning in this way, to keep focused on learning.
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Thanks for your advice, Brooke!!
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