2026-02-20
10 分钟I want to talk about five misconceptions about grammar when it comes to language learning.
Now, of course, grammar is a big part of language learning,
a big part of our understanding of a language.
And recently, to improve in my Arabic, 11th Arabic.
And even because I might have a chance to use Turkish this evening,
I want to refresh my sense of Turkish grammar.
So I go to chat GPT and I ask for some conjugation tables,
some examples of different verb endings in different Example sentences and I get it right away,
but I'm not at the beginning of my learning of Arabic or Turkish I'm going back in to focus on grammar after I have had a lot of exposure to the language So the first misconception about grammar is that it's what you start with in learning a language the sort of you have to learn how the language works That has not been my experience rather The language teaches me how the language works.
I don't need to be told that a language is subject verb, object, or subject object verb.
This will become apparent very, very quickly.
However, what I need to do when I start into a language, I need to get the language in me.
I need to get words.
I need to get sounds of the language.
I can do this, you know, looking words up.
in an online dictionary if I'm dealing with digital text.
I have to get airborne in the language.
I have to develop enough of a sense of the language so that I'm curious about the grammar.
Otherwise, the grammar explanations early on are like planting something in the desert.
There is no topsoil there.