English.

Currently, I am studying an English degree at University and I am in my second year. When I started studying it at University, I realized that you must also study its literature but even more its culture, which is too important to be able to understand the language. You must learn how English people communicate to each other. I also realized that the English taught in schools and high schools is useless, as you won't use those formal, grammatical structures and expressions daily. Teachers put a lot of emphasis on grammatical rules that even the natives don't follow, so when we finally chat with a native, we sound too formal. So I think the best way of learning a language is a fifty-fifty: using schooling methods but also teaching an everyday informal language.

English

Currently, I am studying for an English degree at a university and I am in my second year. When I started studying English at the university, I realized that you must also study its literature; but even more so, its culture which is so important to be able to understand the language. You must learn how English speaking people communicate to each other. I also realized that the English taught in schools and high schools is useless, as you won't use those formal grammatical structures and expressions daily. Teachers put a lot of emphasis on grammatical rules that even the natives don't follow, so when we finally chat with a native, we sound too formal. So I think the best way of learning a language is a fifty-fifty method: using the methods taught in schools but also teaching an everyday language.