#focusing on the gammatical stucture of a language is important but studying it to this degree feels stupid cus thats something that you can | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

grymmdark · 10 days

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the way language is taught in American schools is so bad like this is closer to math than language. you're giving me concepts one at a time to plug into premade scenarios or sentences or whatever. thats not how you learn a language. im great at spanish when it's taught this way but i wouldn't say I actually know it because i don't actually understand it as a language i only understand it as a set of concepts.

#grymms spectacular fucking posts #it's so stupid how does anyone think this is actually teaching anything #like yeah some people can go on to understand and soeak languages thru this method but it's largely inefficient and unintuitive #focusing on the gammatical stucture of a language is important but studying it to this degree feels stupid cus thats something that you can #get a feel for overtime and also many times if you say something weird grammatically it's not actually that big a deal #also the words we learn are so stupid like i do not need to know the spanish word for fishing. that is not a word that will get me anywhere #there are hundreds of words that would be more useful than that

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