Should I Learn English Grammar Is Grammar Important
hi i’m vanessa from speak english with
vanessa calm should you study grammar is
grammar important let’s talk about it
probably when you studied english in
high school or even elementary school
you probably took some grammar classes
they might have focused on sentence
agreement verb subject agreement using
words in the correct place you probably
focused on grammar and vocabulary pretty
heavily so was this an important time
for you was it important for your
english learning
let me give you what i think well this
is kind of a trick question
because of course grammar is important
you need to have good sentence structure
you need to make sure that your
sentences are understandable grammar in
general is important but how can you
learn grammar that is the biggest
question what is the best way to learn
grammar should you study grammar and
focus on grammar rules well there’s two
sides of this if you are a beginner if
you are just starting to learn english i
recommend learning some general grammar
rules learn when to use basic verbs
where different parts of the sentence go
basic sentence structure but if you are
an intermediate or advanced english
learner if you can understand most of
this video if you try your best to
understand native english speakers well
you’re probably intermediate or advanced
and for you your style for learning
grammar should be pretty different if
you’re not a beginner i think you should
be focusing a lot of your time and
energy when you’re studying english to
natural materials conversations from
native speakers real information that
for made
speakers this way you can be surrounded
by real grammar and your ears are
getting used to hearing real sentence
structures and the real sentence
structure might be different from your
textbook but this way you’re getting a
lot of input and you’re able in your
mind to amazingly create sentences
similar to those native speakers after
you’ve listened for a while it’s kind of
like when we are kids we listen a lot to
our parents and after a while we can
start to imitate them but we’re not kids
and we have a lot more experience
learning base learning language your
brain is now thinking in a different way
because you’re an adult you can think
about a subject think about a verb a
two-year-old can’t think about those
things their brains aren’t ready so
because we’re adults and we can think
about those things it’s useful to know
the general concepts of grammar if you
feel like oh I’m curious how can I make
hypothetical sentences and you want to
take a look in your old grammar book
just to see how they’re used and what
the Senate structure is great there’s
nothing perfectly wrong with this you
can take a look at those things to
remind yourself but don’t stress about
it if you feel like I need to memorize
all the grammar rules before I start to
speak mmm
stop right there before you speak no way
at the moment there is no excuse to not
speak you should start speaking as soon
as possible if you don’t know all the
grammar rules don’t worry about it this
is important because you need to start
speaking to gain confidence and you’re
gonna make mistakes it’s natural it’s
very normal when you’re learning
something and grammar will come over
time one way that you can learn grammar
naturally is through native speaker
conversations so
for example in my courses fearless
fluency Club each month I have a
conversation with another English
speaker and one of the other videos the
other lessons in that lesson set is a
grammar video so I take a couple
sentences from the conversation and I
try to explain why we used the words
that we use why did we use those kind of
verbs why did we use that Senate
structure and here are some other
examples from that conversation so that
you can get a variety of ideas of how
you can use it so you can do this right
now you can watch a YouTube video with
subtitles you can watch a TV show that
you understand pretty well or with
subtitles and take one sentence and take
a look at it and try to make a similar
sentence yourself try to decide hmm it
looks like they added an expression at
the beginning they had the main part of
their sentence and then they change the
topic at the end how can I do that
you’re analyzing real English not just a
fixed sentence from a book but a real
English sentence you might be surprised
that it’s not always so clear it’s not
always a simple short sentence people
often change topics in the middle of
conversation maybe make mistakes while
they’re speaking so I recommend if you
feel like you want to study grammar you
want to know more about grammar analyze
sentences from native speakers
conversations there’s one way that you
can start to do this right now I had a
conversation with my sister we talked
about reverse culture shock it’s here on
YouTube I’ll put a link at the end of
this video and while you’re listening to
this you can analyze the sentences that
we said can you make sentences that are
similar what parts don’t you understand
is there something about our sentence
structure that’s a little bit unusual to
you take some time to look at real
conversation
like this some people don’t care at all
about analyzing grammar fine that’s okay
there’s plenty of ways to have a good
sentence structure without analyzing
grammar but some people really enjoy
doing this and if you enjoy it go for it
that is your passion you enjoy it
just use natural materials so if you’d
like to learn grammar with me make sure
that you watch that video at the end
with my sister and try to analyze some
of our sentences and decide if you can
make those for yourself now I want to
ask you a question do you think that
it’s important to study grammar
yes grammar is important but is it
important to study grammar what do you
think give us your opinion below and
let’s read what each other has to say
I’m curious what you think thanks so
much for learning with me and I’ll see
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