I agree, learning grammar explicitly do gonna make your progress. I believe more in the self-improvement approach: that instead of just spending more time on learning a language, you can spend that time learning something new (whatever you're interested) in the target language, and then by doing that you're no longer a language learner, you just use the language as a tool to get information as well as to communicate (main purpose of the language) That's why I only teach about how to learn English, not languages in general. The most amount of information is in English, (Books, Videos, Podcasts etc.) so I'm focused on helping people acquire this awesome tool called English. I think grammar is more useful for polyglots, who are trying to learn multiple languages fast.

I agree as well , but in reality learning grammar is too boring (for me) and that's my own reason not to continue the language learning and stops me on progressing my language journey but I've noticed when I exposed my self in english like watching english clips, movies, yt vids , I've been able to pick up grammar naturally but i tried to watched grammar lessons, just a bit of time hahaha

Did you end up learning it to C1? 😁

@magenta_3d No, honestly, I stopped at the a2 level

Still good progress though, especially considering how hard Russian is

You certainly do improve English by watching game content. But the problem arises when you understand everything in these game videos. You understand every word, it becomes easy, and guess what? You stop making progress. As long as it is hard to watch game content, you make progress. Don't worry, if you're only starting out, it's completely fine to watch gaming videos. But at the higher level, you need to watch something more difficult, like a science podcast, to learn words that these gaming KZfaqrs never say.