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I'm not a native english speaker and I agree there's no actual need for grammar rules, but I have learnt them for only one reason and it's not to get good grades at my school exams: I want to teach the language in the future.

Feeling comfortable is important, so use clear language without worrying too much about grammar, like a child.

Thanks a lot Steve! I feel motived to work hard in my studies. I'll practice my English skills and impove step by step.

I´ve been hanging around on KZfaq for years, but I have never come across your videos until today, Steve. So delighted to learn from you, sir! Many thanks and keep up the good work!

Thank you! This is most powerful information. I make a practice.

I'm grateful to have found you, greetings from Colombia. This is a good thing about the Internet. Nobody teaches what you teach. I wish they taught us this in school.

Thanks,Steve.Lingq is the best tool to learn a language！

Thank you for sharing this helpful thing. 💙

Great video, I needed a little confidence boost.

"using words that don't belong together" Indeed, so much of any language is idiomatic. That is particularly true with prepositional phrases in Indo-European languages (or in Russian, prefixes/suffixes). This applies even between different minor dialects. A few days ago my jaw dropped when I heard a British language KZfaqr say "different to" instead of "different from". I then learned that that is considered standard British English!

I carry a grammar book in the target language with me where ever I go, it's called 'A Novel' it contains so so so many contextual and meaningful examples of correct language usage. This way I can study good form, enrich my grammatical and lexical vocabulary and enjoy myself at the same time without EVER having to study anything.

You're the best Steve !

In my case, I've always enjoyed studying grammar (including that of my own language), which is quite fascinating to me. I like the idea of getting a language skill to express precisely in one sentence what would otherwise take ten sentences. I want to understand people with a minimum of effort, not decipher what they've said with the great uncertainty of not having understood. And I want other people to understand me in as little time as possible, not to explain something in ten sentences after having been answered "What are you meaning?"

Thank you Steve, I am a senior person learning Japanese and you always boost my courage to keep going…yes planning🤗yes it all about feeling comfortable and use what you know🎉🎉😂

I just wanna say that your son Eric...I'm like 99.9% sure he's your son... is a really cool and nice guy who has done some really great academic work, even groundbreaking. I can see where at least in part he got his attitude and work ethic.

I'd really like a home library tour ! your bookshelves look full !

Hi! My name is Tatyanne e conheci seu canal depois que assisti uma entrevista sua com o Gabriel Poliglota, na entrevista comentaram sobre o seu canal e e resolvi procurar... Esse é o primeiro vídeo de muitos que assistirei penso que uma das maiores dificuldades minhas em inglês na seja exatamente o vocabulário, mas sim a insegurança na pronúncia e te ouvir é muito bom, embora eu às vezes só "pegue" as palavras soltas ouvindo eu vou aprendendo a pronúncia correta e coneço a ir treinando a confiança para falar ! Ggratidãi! Se alguma coisa estiver escrito errado me perdoe... é o aplicativo do KZfaq que não consigo enxergar o que estou escrevendo!

aprendo vocabulario sin exforsarme demasiado con estos potcats, muchas gracias, un saludo señor Kautman. 😎

Super great video! ❤

As a native English speaker I find poorly spoken English very annoying. Grammar that I learned as a child from the speakers around me and from books that I read is how I speak the language. The poor speakers that I hear on news broadcasts drive me crazy.

I agree with the opinion that grammar is not as important as people think. As a Chinese, I don't remember what Chinese grammar we were taught in school (just some introduction on what subjects, objects, verbs, etc. are). Of course, we can all speak very good Chinese. And I started learning German four years ago, but made a small progress (only around B1 level). After watching steve's videos, I think it is because I focus so much on grammar that I forgot massive reading and listening. So I change my learning method now. I hope I can master German in less time. (I think grammar is important, especially for a languge like German, but reading and listening are much more important than that.)

Well ! What i to say . I haven't study grammar, at least not me focus in it . The mine is to read and watch KZfaq in English.

Love the Czech grammar book! ❤

Thinking back on learning my native language English, I was never really taught grammar until high school, and my grammar was already pretty spot on without knowing the parts or structure of an English sentence. Although in my case I had an English professor for a mother who corrected me throughout my entire childhood, so my experience may not be the norm.

in brief: The video discusses the role of grammar in language learning and speaking. 1. **Grammar's Role in Speaking**: Steve Kaufmann believes that while grammar can help explain language patterns, it can also hinder speaking if one becomes overly focused on it. Overthinking grammar can create an "affective filter" that causes doubt and inhibits fluent speaking. 2. **Speaking Process**: Speaking involves planning, which is closely tied to memory. When speaking, especially in a foreign language, we start with familiar words and structures. We also reuse patterns that have worked for us before and suppress those that don't fit. 3. **Speaking Well**: Speaking well involves using words with precision and using words that naturally belong together. The most common error is using words that don't typically go together. Speaking well is not just about grammar but also about using words in their natural collocations. 4. **Vocabulary vs. Grammar**: A large vocabulary is essential for speaking well. While grammar rules can be helpful, it's the natural use of language and vocabulary that makes one speak well. 5. **Input and Output**: Both are interconnected. Listening and reading help in language acquisition. Listening, especially to engaging content, creates an emotional connection to the language. Reading, on the other hand, is like speaking to oneself, making it a form of output. 6. **Emotional Connection**: Connecting emotionally with what you're listening to or reading is crucial. This emotional connection enhances language learning. 7. **Reading's Importance**: People who read widely in their own languages tend to speak better. Reading widely in the target language improves speaking ability. Steve emphasizes the goal of reading paper books, as some research suggests that learning from paper books might be more effective than from digital sources. 8. **Link Platform**: Steve mentions the Link platform, which he developed to help learners gradually build their reading ability. Starting with simpler content and progressing to more complex materials can eventually lead to reading extensively. 9. **Conclusion**: To become a good speaker of a language, one doesn't necessarily need to remember grammar rules. Engaging with the language, especially through reading and listening, will naturally improve speaking skills. The video emphasizes the importance of natural language use, extensive reading, and listening in becoming proficient in speaking a language.

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I’m just a bilingual Chinese and English, I use email communicate with client everyday, even in emails we don’t care much about gramma, for me when I was in the US, I heard native speakers ordered”one water” on plane, languages are using for communicates, except when you taking an exam like IELTS or TOFEL

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The Russian language has a lot of grammar, many rules. If you don't learn all those rules, it's difficult to speak well. You can't just say "mami" and think we're speaking a language. I'm already speaking it, but you won't be taken seriously in a formal context where one needs to speak the language properly. You have to learn the grammar. There are native English speakers, Spanish speakers, speakers of any language who don't speak the language well. I am a native speaker and I speak well, but you don't speak well, you communicate. The goal for everyone is to excel among native speakers and communicate effectively. So it's necessary to learn the grammar. The problem with beginners is that they focus so much on grammar that they neglect reading, listening, speaking, all of that. The problem lies with them, not with the grammar. Grammar isn't harming anyone; the problem lies with people who become obsessed.

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I’m thankful for Japanese grammer, I love the way the language is, I like the particals, I love all of it. I just can’t write kanji by hand 😅

Hello, I am studying greek language on LingQ. But the sentence reading timing needs adjust in many lessons. Where can I report about this issue? Thank you

Thank you for your advice. It is very difficult to speak English as Korean.

I agree with this.. in general….though with languages like Chinese and Japanese.. It feels soooo hard to just get to the point of reading kana/kanji well enough to even start to get words to build vocabulary if you do any reading.. and not just audio listening only… I wish LingQ had a kana/kanji learning section just for this reason. to dovetail into the lessons. (Yes i know other programs do this) but it would be nice if it were built in.

I agree with you, but I do think one should study some grammar on the side when learning a language because it can really speed up acquiring the correct "reflex". for example I recently learned German, and it's a lot faster if you're just told how to say you did something in the past: "ich habe .... verb" and see a few example words in how they're conjugated. it takes a few minutes to open a door to a massive amount of things you can say, now if they're not said that way naturally yet that's fine but now you easily notice if something was said in a past form this specific way or a different way. and you also notice the past conjugation for each word for your immersion. I think a good ratio between grammar and immersion is if you're studying 3 hours a day your grammar material shouldn't take more than 15-20 minutes to go through the first time. I would dedicate another 20-40 minutes practice it so it becomes a bit more reflexive. and the rest of should be reading and listening to more enjoyable stuff.

Hey Steve! Thank you for all your insights you share with us. You and the platform lingq are helping me tremendously in my language learning. You said that input/immersion is around 80% of the learning process. Could you make a comprehensive video on the remaining 20%? If you've already done something like that I'm not familiar with it. I would love to get an overview of what techniques to apply to support my studies in the most efficient way.

As far as I can tell, studying grammar is very important in language learning because such a fundamental core is the main foundation of all languages and learning and absorbing plenty of grammar rules or the most important patterns is key when we want to dive deeper into the language in question, therefore you'll know how to connect your own ideas, thoughts, daily life feelings and stuff like that in the target language by writing and speaking. Otherwise, if you mindlessly skip grammar and ignore studying it you'll never know how a language works and you'll probably get frustrated and feel uncomfortable because of the wrong pathway and inaccurate learning strategies you've chosen and the only solution is to change them to something more striking and powerful, you'll have to change them to more suitable, practical and helpful strategies along with excellent resources to go for. In a nutshell, it's important to properly learn grammar which is so beneficial for the brain to be more active when speaking a language in the future because the brain will have developed crucial patterns and a certain logic to pick out the most important vocabulary and information from the language and its native speakers by listening to them carefully and understanding what they're talking about even more if you're at a higher level of it. Those were all my perspectives which are kinda philosophical, so to say.

I've studied a few languages and for "easy" languages like Spanish/French/German, minimal time spent studying grammar worked well. But for Japanese not so much. I think part of that is that for Japanese you can't read well until you can at least speak decently due to the difficult writing system. And people's mileage may vary with whatever language their studying regardless of how difficult/distant is from your native language. Experimentation is key to see what works for you. And my personal experience with grammar is that it's horrible to study by yourself. If you need to study grammar specifically try to find someone to suffer with you if possible. It helps a lot.

At least online if you mess up the grammar people will just insult you all the time. one time when i first started using the internet i got banned from a minor website because my grammar was too bad .

Yes i fluently without studying much grammar even i started learn when b2 but not to offen just a little cause i much reading and listening when you first learning better you know all simple conversation than name of vehicles plans thing just focused with conversation

How should I start learning a new language? LingQ is not for beginners.

Would you consider doing a video on "bang for your buck"? For example, I recall you being moved by the reaction you received from Greeks, whereas you were disappointed with the return you received on Croatian. Hopefully you can decipher what I mean.

I am reading the book "How Language Began" (Daniel L. Everett) Which explains how grammar is not as important as we think and gives interesting evidence to have such an opinion.

Do you recommend reading with the audiobook playing in the background? Or is it better to focus solely on reading?

I am struggling to learn German. I have lived her six years and I have a B2 exam in two weeks. I am not doing well. Thanks for the help

I would like to say that having a native speaker correct you is the best

Bom, apenas dando um exemplo para responder essa pergunta. Eu não sei direito o que é um substantivo, um adjetivo, um pronome, mas eu falo muito bem meu idioma nativo. Logo, falar outro idioma tende a ser semelhante.

Difficult to exchange opinions when the topic of discussion hasn't been defined. So...first...define grammar.

Steve estou tentando aprender esse idioma Kurdish mais não encontro material o suficiente como eu alinho algo que nem mesmo tem

Hello, Steve Haufmann. I recently watched this video and found the discussion about the centipede's walking pattern quite intriguing. However, I was a bit taken aback by the unnecessary creepy motion picture of the bug. While I understand the importance of visuals to emphasize a point, I believe it might have been too intense for some viewers, including myself. I appreciate the content you share and the interesting topics you cover. Just wanted to provide some feedback on the graphic content for consideration in future videos. Thank you!

but why would paper books be any better than ebooks? that i don't understand. and obviously, ebooks have a huge advantage for all the folks without a permanent home like myself: ebooks weigh nothing. and they don't take up physical space. and you don't need to worry about lighting conditions. you are electricity dependent though, so i like to have at least a couple of paper books in case i can't charge the phone. and in some languages ebooks are too freaking difficult to find :(

Can anyone answer this? I am beginning Spanish and find it almost easy to read almost anything and fairly easy to listen an understand but when attempting to speak, I can't recall hardly anything that I can easily read. What can I do to improve this?

S.O.S. Please help !! Any of you ! Though your help, Steve, would be priceless. I am Polish. "Discovered" your channel just....a week ago when I began searching for help for what I am about to explain. While I agree with your approach to long distance language aquisitions --I need a short term solution. It is about SPANISH. I have been on a mission of sorts and must speak Spanish a month from now. Started aquiring the language on November 1, 2023 by listening to some KZfaq stories and totally ignoring the grammar. Went to Spain last Christmas , opened my mouth a few times to various Spaniards and each time...went mute. Litterally! I was hardly able to say A WORD ! No, I am not shy or lacking self confidence and Spanish is not my first foreign language (among a few other ones I had learned English and French). I could not say a word because I had no idea which form of verbs to use : estaba, estuve , era , han, hube, tuve, tuvista etc. !!! THE LACK OF GRAMMAR, especially the conjugation of VERBS, KILLED MY SPANISH LANGUAGE DEBUT and a chance to accomplish my mission. But LIFE gives us "second chances". The second chance for me to "impress" (or rather not to frustrate !) a dozen or more Spanish natives) with my Spanish but first of all to accomplish my important mission will be A MONTH FROM NOW. Yes, I am in a better place now having spent some of my last month Spanish acquisition time on Spanish verbs. I know (I feel ! I am a solo learner, have nobody to speak Spanish with) that --leaving things as they are-- I would be able to at least say... something. But that would not be enough to "accomplish my mission". A month from now I MUST speak fluently even if this enforced "fluency" should disappear shortly afterwards. Is there a chance for that? Are there any shortcuts? I find the number of Spanish verbs , tenses and endings OVERWHELMING ! Is there any other language in the world with so many different verbal forms? What should I do? How?

English is my third language I'm not a follow rules type of girl practice is always better than a theory

Can I learn french very quick without grammar because of the conjugations of the verbs seems a big problem for me.

When we read should we consider grammar in our reading or we should only focus on reading if yes then how?? Plz.reply me Need your help

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Shalom about your agenda simple I suggest like this time gives a good answer of solution with faithfulness in people's everyday GOD GIVES ME WISDOM ENOUGH 너의 행사를 여호와께 맡기라 그리하면 네가 경영하는 것이 이루어지리라 잠언 16:3/개역개정

oh, grammar no if for to speak need well, easy sentence these reading should then. was it though? you don't need to explicitly study grammar as a separate activity ≠ you don't need grammar. main of point agreeing i but.

In general in universal way, people are different,so there is no such a thing to see if which way is good or appropriate or which one is not,and I think the best and pratical way to study any languages is that while studying it also learning its grammar to help us understand more and more.Just imagine only listening it without knowing the patterns of each language called grammar,you are just like a parrot.The question is how long you can speak or understand,it ,for sure,takes tons of time to make you speak better or well;however, if you also know the patterns called grammar,you will speak and understand better and well faster even if at the fist place it looks only reading and listening can get faster,after all the latter is faster than the former at the end of the day with sustainability.

But it is hard no to follow grammar to talk for non native speaker

In Russian, if we don’t know grammar, we cannot determine the meaning, much of the time.

i want to get IELTS score 7 band, is really necessary to learn grammar instead IELTS itself? i want to take IELTS in january next year, i want to learn for it, but i dont know where to start, it make me frustated, i need help, thx before

Steve, do you think if you just watch tons of movies or shows or videos with some, but not a lot of experience you can learn how to comprehend the language from massive amounts of time of listening. Right now I know roughly 4,000 words in Portuguese and have started a year and 8 months ago or so. I can read somewhat alright.. but my listening skills are very very bad. Even the mini stories are difficult. I just started LingQ a month ago and still haven't finished the mini stories cause I read and listen to a lot of other stuff. I usually read more than listen (and I mean ONLY LISTENING, without reading). It is just so difficult for me to understand what is being said. Even if it's something with every word I know.. it's still very difficult. Sometimes I might not even understand at all besides a couple words. And also I've never spoken to anyone, because of this.

Grammar actually is a hinder to language learning including your own language or languages if you have two

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why did you put this damn centipede in the video=((( awkk I didn't expect to see a centipede while watching a language tips video...

Briefly, what I have just said in a longer comment: Based on my own experience: I do not believe it is possible to learn speaking SPANISH without learning its grammar (especially conjugation of verbs) FIRST ! Do you agree or disagree? Please explain your opinion in detail.

I have absolutely no fear of the Czech language, Sir! 😂

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I basically agree with you but Tomorrow I have the HSK3 exam: I had to study grammar 😅

I need friends but practice my english

The video is too good but I can't hit the like twice

Coming from the guy who makes sweeping generalizations about language acquisition without taking individual factors into account.

The bottom line is: just read it! Edit:I really mean it lol

You use grammar

Hello! Of course you need grammar to actually speak WELL. You can communicate in a broken version of the language; you may even communicate fairly well with poor grammar. But is that really the way you want to speak? If so, fine. But I don't. I think the anti-grammar arguments can intimate learners so that they don't even try to learn it. It seems overwhelming and unnecessary. I disagree. It's a part of your target language; don't blow it out of proportion. Just as vocabulary becomes second nature so does grammar. You can't "use words with precision" without grammar. 😎🌺

မင်္ဂလာပါ ဦးလေး အရင်ကပေးထားတဲ့ lingq အကောင့်သက်တမ်း‌ကုန်ရင်ပြောပါလို့ဆိုလို့၊ နောက်ရက်၂၀လောက်ဆိုရင်သက်တမ်းကုန်တော့မယ်ထင်တယ် ခင်ဗျ၊ အရင်တလောကအလုပ်တစ်ခုရခဲ့ပေမဲ့ ရတဲ့လစာနဲ့ အကောင့်ကိုသက်တမ်းတိုးဖို့မတက်နိူင်လို့ပါ။

Please speak slowly