Don't Learn Grammar Before You Really Need It
something poisonous… It instils in students the belief that they can't start speaking or using the language
yet until they've
learnt that grammar But the relentless focus on
grammar that you see in virtually every language curriculum does
Don't Study Grammar Rules, Learn Phrases
learn phrases, you are learning grammar also. You are not only learning individual word, you are
learning grammar. You are learning how to use that word correctly. You don’t need to think about grammar. You don’t need to know rules, it’s automatic. This is another way that native speakers
learn english grammar. Because we were children we learn with phrases. We learn groups of words, not just one word by one word, by one word.
Word by word is slow and it doesn’t help. And you don’t learn any grammar. When you learn whole phrase, you write dont phrase, you are getting extra information. Maybe you don’t know it but you are. For example, “Jonh hates ice cream”. Just that word, just Jonh hates. You know grammar study getting the subject in the word the agree.. you don’t need to think about that. Just write down the
phrase “Jonh hates ice cream” and study it, review it