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Hi. I’m Venessa from speakenglishwithvenessa.com.

Should you study grammar? is grammar important? let’s talk about it.

Probably when you study 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 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 is two side of this, if you are beginner, if you are just starting to learn English I recommend learning some general grammar rules, learn when o use basic verbs, where different part of the sentence go basic sentence structure but if you are an intermediate or advanced English learner, if you can most of this video, if you try your best to understand native English speakers, well you’re probably intermediate or advanced and for you 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 amazing create sentences similar to those native speakers after you’re listen 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 adult and we can’t 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 sentence 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 going to make mistakes, it’s natural, it’s very normal, when you’re learning something and grammar will come over time.

On 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 king of verbs, why did we use that sentence 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 subtitle, 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 hmmm 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’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 conversation. 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 of don’t you understand? Is there something 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 isn’t important to study grammar what do you think? give us your opinion blew 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 you the next time. bye…