The Role of Context in Grammar Acquisition: Moving from Passive Recognition to Active Usage.

[inendlesspain]

I recently reread a guide for japanese grammar after a few years and I got that exact feeling, that I finally "get" the descriptions of what certain structures do and started noticing them more.

[pattidifusa]

Yes! That is exactly how I’m learning italian, and I’m doing very well. I listen, and I read, and little by little things click in place and the rules and explanations that come later on are quite easy to digest because they don’t bore me to death anymore. Unfortunately I lack practice because I don’t have anyone to speak the language with, in that sense I’m a bit isolated. But I found an italian group on facebook and I’m surprised to see how well I’m expressing myself through the written word. You are sooo right, Steve. Best regards.

[JzHernandez]

This is happening to me at the moment with Japanese. I do a lot of reading and listening on LingQ and when I decided to learn te form conjugation for example I knew most of it by just knowing the words.

[southernbelle]

This is very, very true. They make much more sense now than they did when I first got started.

[kuljitsingh]

Even I used to watching your video with subtitles. But now I never look at the subtitles. Obsessed with ENGLISH ❤️

[gaffartarraf]

That's what exactly happened to me last exam.
I went to the exam literally studied nothing about it but since I'm fluent in English so I could understand the context, although I had some mistakes unfortunately but I think it's due to my lack of idioms and enough vocabs.

[existenceispain]

ok if learning a language is about comprehensible inputs, then knowing the structures beforehand does help me "parse" the sentences, but i also have many experience in doing this kind of stuff because of my backgrounds in math, linguistics and programming all of whichis are formal subject requiring this sort of formal parsing but at the end, you do need to make all the knowledge subconscious

[minagelina]

I feel like if you learn one language that is similar to another one, you can pick up structure and grammar pretty. So for example I took French and there were noun and verb conjugations. Some of the irregular verbs were also irregular in Spanish. When i went to Sicily, I memorized the pronoun verb combos that were irregular as in soanish and french. They were used similarly so I could easily make some sentences to soeak to people rven though i didnt know Italian. However i totally agree now that listening to the language and having some basic feel in the language, you definitely learn the grammar better. But its the same in english acquisition as a child. Youre already using proper grammar before you learn it officially.

[benverret]

At school, they expect you to learn lists of words and grammar rules and then to make sentences instead of feeding you sentences first.

[SuperSlavonski]

I like to learn lenguage, but I hate political correctness, woke culture and socialism.