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I´ve learned english the way a child do. Listening, listening, listening and more listening for about 3 years and when you know how the music of the language works you can start to speak, read and finally write. It took me 4 5 years the whole language adquisition process.
Children of 10 can speak languages perfectly but don't know what grammar is (but know subconsciously how to use it). So they've learned it with listening and repeating and creating their own sentences using the phrases they heard for so many times. This methord of learning a new language actually works. For adults even better than for children. We need much less time than chindren need, because our knowledge of our own language is much better which helps us learn other languages (depends of language family of course).
Once upon the time when there were no accessible translators on the Internet I decided to write a letter in French to my friend in France just to make her astonished and pleased. I new only a few words in French. We always write in English to each other. I took a little Polish-French dictionary and started my work. And then I realized that I need also a little grama to construct sentences. It took me all day to write a letter and I was proud when my friend from France answered that she could understand everything and was so moved by my letter. I is one of this moments when I understood that language is for communication and for expressing friendship to people. Just as you say Christian. You are a great teacher. Kind regards to you from Gdańsk , Poland. Have you visited Poland. Try to write an answer in Polish....of course I am joking.
Hi, Everone. My husband has learned Hungarian (!!!) in one year just by listening others speaking it. Without grammar. Now he speaks as a native, still without knowing any grammar. If you have such a talent for languages, you don't need grammar. But it can be a great help though!!!
Hello! That's really interesting! Can I ask how many other languages he speaks, and what is his first language? I would be very grateful for your answer 🤗
@@anfisaignatova Hi, he has Russian parents, but he was born on the territory of Ukraine during the CCCP. He also learned English at school, and Hungarian after settling here 28 years ago. He speaks 4 languages (Russian, Ukrainian, English, Hungarian) perfectly. I am Hungarian and I speak Russian and English. We recently started learning Spanish. I like to see logic, connections patterns in language and between languages. He can't relate to that, he just learns from his gut. 😁
@@teklahuszar6603There is data showing that Hungarian is easy to learn. Maybe his way of learning doesn't work so well in other languages with an adult brain. I learn English in Spain for 20 years with his method and I speak it so so.
I´ve learned english the way a child do. Listening, listening, listening and more listening for about 3 years and when you know how the music of the language works you can start to speak, read and finally write. It took me 4 5 years the whole language adquisition process.
@@priyamehlawat405 I listen to the video on this RUclips channel with headphones and repeat what I hear, like simultaneous translation. I just don’t translate it and repeat it verbatim. This helps a lot in gaining fluency.
19:55 Thank you for saying this))) "Learning a language only through watching television and having conversations that's not the most efficient way to learn a language "
Thank you for this interesting and educational video. Your pronunciation is so clear and understandable . I've got great pleasure listening to you. I think you're a good teacher ! I'm looking forward to see next videos from you! Best regards from Ukraine!👍
Hey, this is my first comment for about 2 years I have been watching this lovely channel. I have to say Christian, you have been doing a great job, you will have anyone speaking! Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You are amazing Teacher from the capital letter as we say in Ukraine. I hope the society realize your BIG message that you are trying to bring to everyone. You have already deserved a golden memorial for that job, they don't just understand it yet. I pray God to give us power to fight unless we win.
Grammar is a technical knowledge if you make it explicit, but grammar is also a logic relationship between words that you learn implicitly. See this example that I lived: My husband had to take an exam to demonstrate his level of English for a PhD. He never took courses and he never traveled to an anglo-saxon country, but he always listened to music, watched movies and read scientific articles in English. He went to an English School and took the Michigan without studying or even practicing, he is so self-confident (and so brave to do that)! Because of the urgency to start his PhD and because he's not affraid of the people's judgment, he jumped in to it! but my prejudices made me think that he was going to fail embarrassingly. He obtained B2 in speaking!🎉!.. But A beginner in grammar!!! (filling the blanks is something he never did before and those broken phrases were a headache for him)... however reading and writing went good. He entered to the PhD program successfully. As I teach philosophy of language, in linguistics, this particular case made me confirmed many of the theories of natural learning. I was completely stunned. He doesn't know grammar, but he does.
True, but also you can't quite translate meaning. For example you can say we have to wash the dishes after we eat. Depending on the context of how it's said. It can mean at least three different things. Literally we have to wash the dishes after we eat or expressed in disgust and dislike Or as a question. People sometimes forget it's how you say it to.
@@brendon2462 I agree. This is an additional aspect of communication. Perhaps, the weight of the ingredients also differs between languages. For some, the context is very important, while less so in others.
The answer to that question is easy: grammar is necesary, of course, but we don't have to study grammar... we have to "learn" grammar. Can you see the diference? 😉
I don't agree this absolutely.I think it's true when you want to learn a language that has a similar logic to a language you already speak, but if you want to learn a language that has a logic totally different from any language you speak I think you should to learn some grammar. I will do an analogy, imagine you have a musical instrument, you don't need to learn musical theory for playing a music, you can learn how to play any music without learning musical theory, but if you want to compose a music? If you don't know musical theory enough to compose the excerpt you are imagining, so you can only combine other excerpts you already know to form this, but does something secure you are imagining an excerpt that is a combination of excerpts you already know? The same thing happens if you are learning a language totally different from any language you know, you can only combine structures that you already know to form new structures, but nothing secures the structure you are imagining is a combination of structures you already know, because of this I think learning grammar is important when you learning a language totally different from any language you already speak. Pardon for my English, I'm learning, and I writed this coment without the helping of the translator.
I certainly learned German "on the street" back in the 70s, as we had no money to pay for lessons or grammar books. Back in those days, people in Germany were not so capable of conversing in English (lucky for me, I guess), so it was either sink or swim. I was fluent wthin the first year. Might not be the best way for everyone, but it worked for me.
Hi Christian, thanks for this video! I would like to add some things : As the definition says, grammar is the way we organize words together in a certain logic. > So grammar exists since language exists, with or without books. Books are just one way to transmit this knowledge. So when you learn a language you might need/want to know the “secrets” behind the sentences you express or not. Grammar rules are these “secrets” and you don’t NEED them to speak but you might WANT to know them to speed up your learning process. Also, in French, we do have respect for the Académie Française, but their power is less and less strong ( they are not so modern people), because we want to let the language evolve a little bit faster (faster than the Académie would like it to evolve sometimes). And this is a long and complex subject. But I would like to finish with this : when we don’t follow the official rules, the ones from the Académie for example, that does not mean we don’t follow any rule, we just follow ANOTHER rule, because a language does not exists without rules, as you shown in the first study you talked about with the children. Voilà! A bientôt. Elsa
Another interesting fact is that as France is more or less the center of Esperanto language they made analogously Academy of Esperanto to do same stuff :)
A good common-sense conclusion. I really don't know why people make this so complicated. If you hate grammar and are intimidated by it, of course you can learn without it. But learning by deducing language patterns from massive input is slow - it takes children a decade to talk like 10-year-olds. And it's a faculty that declines rapidly with age, so the older you are the harder it gets. On the other hand our ability to read and to reason develops with age. So unless you really actively hate working with grammar patterns, spending a bit of time learning to recognise them and automate them will pay off handsomely in terms of speeding up your progress. Just use it as an aid to your interaction with native language, and not as an end in itself. And that, surely, is about all you need to say about it, despite the oceans of impassioned debate on the RUclips vlogosphere...
I like your videos. I'm agree. Grammar is your friend which help you understanding other people. For example, 我爱你。你爱我。The first is "I love you". The second sentence is "You love me". It's grammar too. I won't understand it, if I didn't know grammar. Thank you for your answer. I shared your video.
Hi, want to mention that i love your videos , example :reverse thinking , that make impact in our self confidence when approach english, sometimes doesnt care attitude is the clue.
The best teacher ..I'm addicted to his videos and I'm catching up all his live videos since 2016 ...it's kind of serie for me ...I'm fan of his way to teach ..thank you Mr Christian
That's what I have always considered in my mind and you have named it clearly and concisely. That's the word :more "efficient" way of learning languages (when knowing grama ). Thanks.
After 22 minutes we arrive at the answer: “chicken dance.” Hahaha A little bit of this and a little bit of that. The best answer to a very complex question.
amazing content as always! you're just different. thanks for sharing! and just to so you and your audience know, portuguese and spanish, for example, also have an institution which decides "what's right and wrong" in their respective languages.
hi Chris. you exploded it in my face! I am 64 an Arabic native-speaker , who is claiming to change and eliminate some old fashion Arabic grammar topics in my short stories ( they reuse to the publisher of course ). For example , we have 2 males and 2 females in grammar which are not used in real people daily life ( you have only singular and plural ) that make it very difficult when we study and write . But it is a deep and secret issue related directly to Muslims holy book . Anyway,thanks to face it .
I think grammar is always a matter. It is, probably, not necessary to have a deep understanding of grammar in order to learn some basics of English or any other analytic language. It is enough to know the most important structures: how to build a narrative or interrogative sentence, have some understanding of the English tenses system. But if you want to speak or, especially, to write in any language at a sufficiently high level, knowledge of grammar is necessary. To learn a synthetic language like Russian, you need to pay attention to grammar from the very beginning. Without knowledge of gender, cases, declensions, etc. it will be often impossible to construct correctly an elementary sentence. Or learning Spanish you have to memorize from the very beginning: yo - soy, tu - eres... I suppose this is also a grammar.
That is not absolutely true, I have been learning the Russian language with Duolingo and can construct some sentences correctly, I suppose I have acquired some grammar without studying it. by the way i also learned english with duolingo
We need grammar, of course, but studying English through grammar is too boring and I don't think it's the best way. I enjoyed this video. Thanks Christian.
Cantonese Chinese is my mother and I can speak mandarin Chinese, not very fluently though. if grammar is like what it is in English,,like the English grammar. I would say Chinese is like almost gramnarless. we don't have articles, tenses, and the like in Chinese. I remembered when I started to study English at the age of 17, I opened a pocket dictionary of English, the first thing that baffled me was a, an and the. the lack of tenses in Chinese make Chinese people speak in a way that is confusing . when someone is recounting past events, the timeline in which things happened is not clear, what came first and what came later..the lack of pronouns of he, she and it in spoken Chinese makes it hard for the listener to follow which aforementioned items they refer to. no singular and plural forms of nouns can influence the way one thinks. the underdeveloped nature of the Chinese language makes it easy for many native English speakers to learn to be fluent after their failed attempts at other foreign languages like French, German or Spanish. as some linguistists have said that Chinese was a baby talk, that's why Chinese civilization can not develop to be a modern civilization, like the western civilization. or the anglo saxon civilization. Chinese culture is like an ancient culture. edit :Chinese do have parts of speech and word order. 英國Britain ，英國人a brit,Briton, a British person, an Englishman ，英語English, the language. 英國人在in英國說speak 英語。 the British people 人in Britain speak說English. the Brits speak English in Britain. I can't go on, it is too complicated.
Hi there, thank you for all your enlightening work! In this video you say that language has existed for a million years. I find this information incredibly interesting, because it’s something I’ve always asked myself. So here’s my question: do you know of any articles or studies that I could read on the matter? It’s ok if it was just your idea, but I’d really like to know. Thank you again! Flavia from Italy
Grammar is the spinal cord of a language. We need some kind of structure in order to organize a language and, once we learned that, we can use it with confidence. That's also how we get to break the rules if we need it while expressing ourselves. As a matter of fact, grammar and phonology should go hand in hand when acquiring a new language. It's harder to correct the pronunciation than the grammar of a person.
Hi, i'm from Brazil. I'm learning english by miself. It's so hard for me, but i'll don't give up because i can understand lot of things you say. You channel have been greatly helpful for me. Sorry for my writing mystakes.
Great video, I am bilingual and there are two official institutions that control the languages: Real Academia de la Lengua Española and Acadèmia de la Llengua Catalana. There are working and controlling or admitting or not some new words, or some new forms, because languages are alive. See you on ? the next video. Oh, yous prepositions, always I doubt about them🤗
Good video. The whole concept of prescriptive grammar is an issue because certain authorities in the case of French being an official one and in the case of English being non-official but with a high reputation such as Oxford don't necessarily reflect how the language actually is. I used to work as an EFL teacher and remember teaching grammar rules such as "fewer" for countable nouns and "less" for uncountable nouns yet the reality is most English speakers just use "less" for both noun classes like how "more" is used in the same way. Or take the time like certain verbs sásta static and can't be used in a progressive form such as "like", "love", "remember" and "forget" yet it's now become common to hear phrases like "I'm really liking this party". The point is languages evolve to respond to certain needs. Maybe using less in the same way as more actually makes sense. Maybe the emergence of new progressive forms of certain verbs brings in a new way to convey an idea like "I'm remembering that situation" which means like "I'm coming to remember something that I'd previously forgotten".
I thing that so many people hate grammar is The way that It is teached, as a boring thing. I love grammar beacause i discovered It soon its importance in my life.
But I would say for speaking that pronunciation, intonation, stresses, reductions, exc. Are far more important in speaking. Because if you can speak so clearly. Close to a native level. Even if you mess up the grammar some. They will still understand you easily. Besides you can improve your grammar later on. Eventually you will make less mistakes. For example you could say I my dog walk today. Yea grammar wise it'swrong. But if they say it really good. Then you will still easily understand it no problem.
I think you really need grammar so that you could learn how not to fall in such mistakes in writing. such as.(I thing, teached, discovered which is the past with the word soon....)
@@brendon2462 with a good enough pronunciation , and right grammar , it is a lot easier to understand someone than with perfect pronunciation and messy grammar .
love to listen to your answers. you don't just say "yes" or "no", you show "how" and "why" in order we, as learners, can understand this by our own route of thoughts, not just by listening to someone's opinon who has thousand of subscribers
Hi Christian. Man, It mustn’t there be someone who doesn’t love your lecture and comments. It actually, is an explanation of how a language, an oral communication system comes up, develops, and works. It’s really amazing!
Hi, Christian, I didn't have idea that you know this song, here in Brazil it was very common in a TV program in the 1980's and 1990's, and the lyric is "Passarinho quer dançar, o rabicho balançar, porque acaba de nascer, tchu, tchu, tchu, tchu..." jejejejeje Gugu Liberato is the singer... By the way, very interesting the video and the question about grammar. Thank you.
I love grammars 😍 French , English, German, Spanish ... don't mean I master them at all but it is interesting to understand the way people express things in a different way you would in your language, it's fascinating 🤗. Also pleaaaaase, lazy gits, stop saying you don't like it because your teachers ( because all of them, right ?) taught it the boring way 🤦
Hello Mr christian we need lessons on writing skill. your style in teaching is really fantastic. thanks a lot for your efforts to support the foreign learners of English language.
I am a Chinese. Chinese does have grammar! The grammar is just totally different from English. Writing Chinese is more efficient to express meaning. The Chinese version is always the thinnest one among the United Nations' documents, for instance.
Of course We need Grammar... Not other way to learn another language.. If you don't know at least the Basic English Grammar in use..May I ask what are you doing in here? Stay safe and keep Studying. And ( in my humble opinion) Be Always Listening.. even if you don't understand the whole meaning. Greetings from Spain José Benito. P. S. Great Video. Thanks so much for posting it
Fantastic video Richard, thanks. I play guitar and a bit piano but I don't know music. I just know the staff and how the notes are placed, but for me is enough. I use imitation to learn accords and new songs. However, I think it is important that there are musical rules, which is finally same to what happens with grammar and language. Language must understand grammar and grammar must understand that people learn a new language have a priority "communication" before complying with the rules 100%. Thanks Richard for your motivation in this journy!
Grammar is a thiny part of the all process! We should learn it after an amount of exposure like the children do. They start learning grammar at school, not at home. We are adult and we need some explicit rules to learn a language, but I think that it is only a small piece of the picture. Listening and reading are the key to develop the language inside our brain. We need exposure and less grammar at school. I love you videos teacher! Greetings from Italy!
What is the alternative to studying grammar? An earlier video of Christian touched on this which talked about ‘meaning-based’ learning. Instead of grammar the student receives comprehensible input (easily decipherable messages). CI is then anchored by means of physical movement and story. Most of the emphasis in the early stages should be on decoding the language. You can only meaningfully encode once you are able to decode. Speaking is the SPONTANEOUS RESULT of acquisition which happens through decoding. You can not acquire language by talking about it. If you want to learn to ride a bike, jump on. Don’t listen to dreary explanations about the fundamentals of balance.
Since I know you and your videos, I always take a look at the etymology. 😍😍 It's unbelievable how easy and fast my brain saves then the new word. It's all about the story/ history storyI have then for a word. Thank you so much Christian. I live your you tube channel, your Instagram account and Facebook page as well. Greetings from Germany, Sandra ... You and your pizza... 😂😂😂
Amazing video man, you make a complex sequence of reasoning to express an idea look simple as a wheather daily conversation. I'll wait the next video!!
Hello Christian! I have followed a teacher from Brasil - Elisabeth Wagner who has the same way you have to teach -listen listen listen and reapeat.Not read and write as a child learn or a parrot. You could interview her.She is more than 80 years old , a positive person. Thank you!
Christian, thank you for your video. It's great, as usual. I learn grammar, but I also try to use it. And that's why I don't feel bad about this :) A friend of mine struggles with grammar because she likes to do grammar exercises without using it, and she deceives herself, I suppose. She thinks that she learns English, but actually, she just does grammar tests or something else. I hope I'll be able to explain to her that she needs to use it :)
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@@jojozain4506 I'm agree.
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I´ve learned english the way a child do. Listening, listening, listening and more listening for about 3 years and when you know how the music of the language works you can start to speak, read and finally write. It took me 4 5 years the whole language adquisition process.
Thats is thrue really really thrue
Children of 10 can speak languages perfectly but don't know what grammar is (but know subconsciously how to use it). So they've learned it with listening and repeating and creating their own sentences using the phrases they heard for so many times. This methord of learning a new language actually works. For adults even better than for children. We need much less time than chindren need, because our knowledge of our own language is much better which helps us learn other languages (depends of language family of course).
Grammar is a logic description of the elements, relationships among the elements, and the structure of a language.
Once upon the time when there were no accessible translators on the Internet I decided to write a letter in French to my friend in France just to make her astonished and pleased. I new only a few words in French. We always write in English to each other. I took a little Polish-French dictionary and started my work. And then I realized that I need also a little grama to construct sentences. It took me all day to write a letter and I was proud when my friend from France answered that she could understand everything and was so moved by my letter. I is one of this moments when I understood that language is for communication and for expressing friendship to people. Just as you say Christian. You are a great teacher. Kind regards to you from Gdańsk , Poland. Have you visited Poland. Try to write an answer in Polish....of course I am joking.
Hi, Everone. My husband has learned Hungarian (!!!) in one year just by listening others speaking it. Without grammar. Now he speaks as a native, still without knowing any grammar. If you have such a talent for languages, you don't need grammar. But it can be a great help though!!!
Hello! That's really interesting! Can I ask how many other languages he speaks, and what is his first language? I would be very grateful for your answer 🤗
@@anfisaignatova Hi, he has Russian parents, but he was born on the territory of Ukraine during the CCCP. He also learned English at school, and Hungarian after settling here 28 years ago.
He speaks 4 languages (Russian, Ukrainian, English, Hungarian) perfectly.
I am Hungarian and I speak Russian and English.
We recently started learning Spanish. I like to see logic, connections patterns in language and between languages. He can't relate to that, he just learns from his gut. 😁
@@teklahuszar6603 very interesting! Thank you for sharing! :))
@@teklahuszar6603There is data showing that Hungarian is easy to learn. Maybe his way of learning doesn't work so well in other languages with an adult brain. I learn English in Spain for 20 years with his method and I speak it so so.
I´ve learned english the way a child do. Listening, listening, listening and more listening for about 3 years and when you know how the music of the language works you can start to speak, read and finally write. It took me 4 5 years the whole language adquisition process.
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Thank you for sharing you journey with us
When u listened some stuff ... so u used to listened that particular stuff on repetition ?? Plzz reply 🙏
@@priyamehlawat405 I listen to the video on this RUclips channel with headphones and repeat what I hear, like simultaneous translation. I just don’t translate it and repeat it verbatim. This helps a lot in gaining fluency.
19:55 Thank you for saying this)))
"Learning a language only through watching television and having conversations that's not the most efficient way to learn a language "
Thank you for this interesting and educational video. Your pronunciation is so clear and understandable . I've got great pleasure listening to you. I think you're a good teacher ! I'm looking forward to see next videos from you! Best regards from Ukraine!👍
Hey, this is my first comment for about 2 years I have been watching this lovely channel. I have to say Christian, you have been doing a great job, you will have anyone speaking! Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You are amazing Teacher from the capital letter as we say in Ukraine. I hope the society realize your BIG message that you are trying to bring to everyone. You have already deserved a golden memorial for that job, they don't just understand it yet. I pray God to give us power to fight unless we win.
they say that not only in Ukraine. I am talking about 'the capital letter'.
You are a philosopher of LANGUAGE,it attracts learners,making them more
thotfull about the ways of studying .Thank you for thoughts.
Grammar is a technical knowledge if you make it explicit, but grammar is also a logic relationship between words that you learn implicitly. See this example that I lived: My husband had to take an exam to demonstrate his level of English for a PhD. He never took courses and he never traveled to an anglo-saxon country, but he always listened to music, watched movies and read scientific articles in English. He went to an English School and took the Michigan without studying or even practicing, he is so self-confident (and so brave to do that)!
Because of the urgency to start his PhD and because he's not affraid of the people's judgment, he jumped in to it! but my prejudices made me think that he was going to fail embarrassingly.
He obtained B2 in speaking!🎉!.. But A beginner in grammar!!! (filling the blanks is something he never did before and those broken phrases were a headache for him)... however reading and writing went good. He entered to the PhD program successfully.
As I teach philosophy of language, in linguistics, this particular case made me confirmed many of the theories of natural learning. I was completely stunned. He doesn't know grammar, but he does.
In my view, grammar is what produces meaning when putting together words. Or in other words: grammar is the link between vocabulary and communication.
True, but also you can't quite translate meaning. For example you can say we have to wash the dishes after we eat. Depending on the context of how it's said. It can mean at least three different things. Literally we have to wash the dishes after we eat or expressed in disgust and dislike Or as a question. People sometimes forget it's how you say it to.
@@brendon2462 I agree. This is an additional aspect of communication. Perhaps, the weight of the ingredients also differs between languages. For some, the context is very important, while less so in others.
Language learning is fun if you teach it. you made it easier for us. love u Christian.
Grammar is the glue that holds language and culture together.
The answer to that question is easy: grammar is necesary, of course, but we don't have to study grammar... we have to "learn" grammar. Can you see the diference? 😉
Exactly! It's like riding a bike, you learn it by actually riding it
I don't agree this absolutely.I think it's true when you want to learn a language that has a similar logic to a language you already speak, but if you want to learn a language that has a logic totally different from any language you speak I think you should to learn some grammar. I will do an analogy, imagine you have a musical instrument, you don't need to learn musical theory for playing a music, you can learn how to play any music without learning musical theory, but if you want to compose a music? If you don't know musical theory enough to compose the excerpt you are imagining, so you can only combine other excerpts you already know to form this, but does something secure you are imagining an excerpt that is a combination of excerpts you already know? The same thing happens if you are learning a language totally different from any language you know, you can only combine structures that you already know to form new structures, but nothing secures the structure you are imagining is a combination of structures you already know, because of this I think learning grammar is important when you learning a language totally different from any language you already speak.
Pardon for my English, I'm learning, and I writed this coment without the helping of the translator.
I certainly learned German "on the street" back in the 70s, as we had no money to pay for lessons or grammar books. Back in those days, people in Germany were not so capable of conversing in English (lucky for me, I guess), so it was either sink or swim. I was fluent wthin the first year. Might not be the best way for everyone, but it worked for me.
Hi Christian, thanks for this video! I would like to add some things :
As the definition says, grammar is the way we organize words together in a certain logic. > So grammar exists since language exists, with or without books. Books are just one way to transmit this knowledge.
So when you learn a language you might need/want to know the “secrets” behind the sentences you express or not. Grammar rules are these “secrets” and you don’t NEED them to speak but you might WANT to know them to speed up your learning process.
Also, in French, we do have respect for the Académie Française, but their power is less and less strong ( they are not so modern people), because we want to let the language evolve a little bit faster (faster than the Académie would like it to evolve sometimes). And this is a long and complex subject. But I would like to finish with this : when we don’t follow the official rules, the ones from the Académie for example, that does not mean we don’t follow any rule, we just follow ANOTHER rule, because a language does not exists without rules, as you shown in the first study you talked about with the children.
Voilà! A bientôt. Elsa
Another interesting fact is that as France is more or less the center of Esperanto language they made analogously Academy of Esperanto to do same stuff :)
A good common-sense conclusion. I really don't know why people make this so complicated. If you hate grammar and are intimidated by it, of course you can learn without it. But learning by deducing language patterns from massive input is slow - it takes children a decade to talk like 10-year-olds. And it's a faculty that declines rapidly with age, so the older you are the harder it gets.
On the other hand our ability to read and to reason develops with age. So unless you really actively hate working with grammar patterns, spending a bit of time learning to recognise them and automate them will pay off handsomely in terms of speeding up your progress. Just use it as an aid to your interaction with native language, and not as an end in itself. And that, surely, is about all you need to say about it, despite the oceans of impassioned debate on the RUclips vlogosphere...
I like your videos. I'm agree. Grammar is your friend which help you understanding other people. For example, 我爱你。你爱我。The first is "I love you". The second sentence is "You love me". It's grammar too. I won't understand it, if I didn't know grammar. Thank you for your answer. I shared your video.
Hi, want to mention that i love your videos , example :reverse thinking , that make impact in our self confidence when approach english, sometimes doesnt care attitude is the clue.
this is the first time i've seen this video,as a matter in fact i'm truly excited to be here.
I love all the videos from canguru English, but that's such a great one because talks about science and experiments, testing hipoteses etc.
The best teacher ..I'm addicted to his videos and I'm catching up all his live videos since 2016 ...it's kind of serie for me ...I'm fan of his way to teach ..thank you Mr Christian
You are the best teacher Chistian !!
That's what I have always considered in my mind and you have named it clearly and concisely. That's the word :more "efficient" way of learning languages (when knowing grama ). Thanks.
God, I love this guy! So much energy!
I enjoyed the Information from this video as well as the others that you have made. Thanks, Chris!😁
I just love you and your ways Christian.👏👏👏
I'm a translator and teacher of English from Argentina
Hello Chrys you are absolutely right. I am waiting for your videos all days, Please make videos more frequently
It's so interesting to listen to You! The information is so alternative and alive(not sure if the words are properly used)) Thank you so much!❤
After 22 minutes we arrive at the answer: “chicken dance.” Hahaha A little bit of this and a little bit of that. The best answer to a very complex question.
Thanks a lot
amazing content as always! you're just different. thanks for sharing! and just to so you and your audience know, portuguese and spanish, for example, also have an institution which decides "what's right and wrong" in their respective languages.
hi Chris. you exploded it in my face! I am 64 an Arabic native-speaker , who is claiming to change and eliminate some old fashion Arabic grammar topics in my short stories ( they reuse to the publisher of course ). For example , we have 2 males and 2 females in grammar which are not used in real people daily life ( you have only singular and plural ) that make it very difficult when we study and write . But it is a deep and secret issue related directly to Muslims holy book . Anyway,thanks to face it .
I think grammar is always a matter. It is, probably, not necessary to have a deep understanding of grammar in order to learn some basics of English or any other analytic language. It is enough to know the most important structures: how to build a narrative or interrogative sentence, have some understanding of the English tenses system. But if you want to speak or, especially, to write in any language at a sufficiently high level, knowledge of grammar is necessary.
To learn a synthetic language like Russian, you need to pay attention to grammar from the very beginning. Without knowledge of gender, cases, declensions, etc. it will be often impossible to construct correctly an elementary sentence.
Or learning Spanish you have to memorize from the very beginning: yo - soy, tu - eres... I suppose this is also a grammar.
That is not absolutely true, I have been learning the Russian language with Duolingo and can construct some sentences correctly,
I suppose I have acquired some grammar without studying it. by the way i also learned english with duolingo
@@egustavps Show us your C2 level certificate in English and Russian.
We need grammar, of course, but studying English through grammar is too boring and I don't think it's the best way. I enjoyed this video. Thanks Christian.
Cantonese Chinese is my mother and I can speak mandarin Chinese, not very fluently though. if grammar is like what it is in English,,like the English grammar. I would say Chinese is like almost gramnarless. we don't have articles, tenses, and the like in Chinese. I remembered when I started to study English at the age of 17, I opened a pocket dictionary of English, the first thing that baffled me was a, an and the. the lack of tenses in Chinese make Chinese people speak in a way that is confusing . when someone is recounting past events, the timeline in which things happened is not clear, what came first and what came later..the lack of pronouns of he, she and it in spoken Chinese makes it hard for the listener to follow which aforementioned items they refer to. no singular and plural forms of nouns can influence the way one thinks.
the underdeveloped nature of the Chinese language makes it easy for many native English speakers to learn to be fluent after their failed attempts at other foreign languages like French, German or Spanish.
as some linguistists have said that Chinese was a baby talk, that's why Chinese civilization can not develop to be a modern civilization, like the western civilization. or the anglo saxon civilization.
Chinese culture is like an ancient culture.
edit :Chinese do have parts of speech and word order.
英國Britain ，英國人a brit,Briton, a British person, an Englishman ，英語English, the language.
英國人在in英國說speak 英語。
the British people 人in Britain speak說English.
the Brits speak English in Britain.
I can't go on, it is too complicated.
I love Chinese music and I always dance and sing with them!!💙💜For me Chinese go beyond communication! It's pure eternal art!!
You remind me with Bahasa Indonesia with no tenses, no mention gender etc like Mandarin
OMG! So very interesting. Little did I know. Thanks for the explanation..
Hi there, thank you for all your enlightening work! In this video you say that language has existed for a million years. I find this information incredibly interesting, because it’s something I’ve always asked myself. So here’s my question: do you know of any articles or studies that I could read on the matter? It’s ok if it was just your idea, but I’d really like to know. Thank you again! Flavia from Italy
Thanks.I agree with you 100%
Grammar is the spinal cord of a language. We need some kind of structure in order to organize a language and, once we learned that, we can use it with confidence. That's also how we get to break the rules if we need it while expressing ourselves. As a matter of fact, grammar and phonology should go hand in hand when acquiring a new language. It's harder to correct the pronunciation than the grammar of a person.
You should learn linguistics bro! :) You'll know later what you're talking about. :)
Hi, i'm from Brazil. I'm learning english by miself. It's so hard for me, but i'll don't give up because i can understand lot of things you say. You channel have been greatly helpful for me. Sorry for my writing mystakes.
I'm getting.
It's amazing.
I'm learning with you.
Very hard.
Sound in the ear hears your Voice.🙏
I have been learning english for ten years! I like your lessons very much!
Great video,
I am bilingual and there are two official institutions that control the languages:
Real Academia de la Lengua Española
and Acadèmia de la Llengua Catalana.
There are working and controlling or admitting or not some new words, or some new forms, because languages are alive.
See you on ? the next video. Oh, yous prepositions, always I doubt about them🤗
Thank You for Your reaserch. I understood perfectly.
I’m from Argentina.
I have lucky to discovered your channel
Good video. The whole concept of prescriptive grammar is an issue because certain authorities in the case of French being an official one and in the case of English being non-official but with a high reputation such as Oxford don't necessarily reflect how the language actually is. I used to work as an EFL teacher and remember teaching grammar rules such as "fewer" for countable nouns and "less" for uncountable nouns yet the reality is most English speakers just use "less" for both noun classes like how "more" is used in the same way. Or take the time like certain verbs sásta static and can't be used in a progressive form such as "like", "love", "remember" and "forget" yet it's now become common to hear phrases like "I'm really liking this party". The point is languages evolve to respond to certain needs. Maybe using less in the same way as more actually makes sense. Maybe the emergence of new progressive forms of certain verbs brings in a new way to convey an idea like "I'm remembering that situation" which means like "I'm coming to remember something that I'd previously forgotten".
It's the same exact thing as "Inside jokes" One word or a phrase can mean many things completely... Good job.
I thing that so many people hate grammar is The way that It is teached, as a boring thing. I love grammar beacause i discovered It soon its importance in my life.
But I would say for speaking that pronunciation, intonation, stresses, reductions, exc. Are far more important in speaking. Because if you can speak so clearly. Close to a native level. Even if you mess up the grammar some. They will still understand you easily. Besides you can improve your grammar later on. Eventually you will make less mistakes. For example you could say I my dog walk today. Yea grammar wise it'swrong. But if they say it really good. Then you will still easily understand it no problem.
The way that it is taught... not teached.
I think you really need grammar so that you could learn how not to fall in such mistakes in writing. such as.(I thing, teached, discovered which is the past with the word soon....)
@@brendon2462 with a good enough pronunciation , and right grammar , it is a lot easier to understand someone than with perfect pronunciation and messy grammar .
love to listen to your answers. you don't just say "yes" or "no", you show "how" and "why" in order we, as learners, can understand this by our own route of thoughts, not just by listening to someone's opinon who has thousand of subscribers
"Language can not exist without grammar". Loved it.
no! grammar can not exist without language
thank you so much lovely teacher
Hi Christian. Man, It mustn’t there be someone who doesn’t love your lecture and comments. It actually, is an explanation of how a language, an oral communication system comes up, develops, and works. It’s really amazing!
Hi, Christian, I didn't have idea that you know this song, here in Brazil it was very common in a TV program in the 1980's and 1990's, and the lyric is "Passarinho quer dançar, o rabicho balançar, porque acaba de nascer, tchu, tchu, tchu, tchu..." jejejejeje Gugu Liberato is the singer... By the way, very interesting the video and the question about grammar. Thank you.
I came here for the best day of the week greeting.
Hi Cristian. From Brasil . I can learn english better with your viewpoint . Thank s
Thanks a lot! That was great!
I love grammars 😍 French , English, German, Spanish ... don't mean I master them at all but it is interesting to understand the way people express things in a different way you would in your language, it's fascinating 🤗. Also pleaaaaase, lazy gits, stop saying you don't like it because your teachers ( because all of them, right ?) taught it the boring way 🤦
Hello Mr christian we need lessons on writing skill. your style in teaching is really fantastic. thanks a lot for your efforts to support the foreign learners of English language.
I love your classes so much ❤ you're so funny.😂 Your accent is Good and clean to understand.
It is amazing how obvious you are and still, it is so interesting to watch your videos! Thank's.
When I watch your video I get happy it is easy to understand
I am a Chinese. Chinese does have grammar! The grammar is just totally different from English. Writing Chinese is more efficient to express meaning. The Chinese version is always the thinnest one among the United Nations' documents, for instance.
Hello! Christian my name is Francisco I'm writing to you from México and I want to say to that enjoy very much your channel. Best Regards.
Excellent! I loved it! Was really good! Thank you so much 🙏
Thanks, Christian. I am looking forward to your next video.
Grammar introduces thinking way of the people, which language are you learning.
Of course We need Grammar... Not other way to learn another language.. If you don't know at least the Basic English Grammar in use..May I ask what are you doing in here? Stay safe and keep Studying. And ( in my humble opinion) Be Always Listening.. even if you don't understand the whole meaning. Greetings from Spain José Benito. P. S. Great Video. Thanks so much for posting it
I 'm so happy tô find your Channel. You teach Very Very clear each subject. You're a good teach.
Best teacher ever!!
18:13 the answer I was waiting for 21:32 that's RIGHT.
Fantastic video Richard, thanks. I play guitar and a bit piano but I don't know music. I just know the staff and how the notes are placed, but for me is enough. I use imitation to learn accords and new songs. However, I think it is important that there are musical rules, which is finally same to what happens with grammar and language.
Language must understand grammar and grammar must understand that people learn a new language have a priority "communication" before complying with the rules 100%.
Thanks Richard for your motivation in this journy!
Thanks, Christian.😊
Bro nailed it 🔥! Well explained !
Grammar is a thiny part of the all process! We should learn it after an amount of exposure like the children do. They start learning grammar at school, not at home. We are adult and we need some explicit rules to learn a language, but I think that it is only a small piece of the picture. Listening and reading are the key to develop the language inside our brain. We need exposure and less grammar at school.
I love you videos teacher! Greetings from Italy!
Sono assolutamente d'accordo con tutto quello che hai scritto. 👍
Thiny? What is it?
@@loredanatagliaferri5339 hi native here he meant tiny
A FABULOUS SPEAKER AND TEACHER
Thank for a very useful information!)
What is the alternative to studying grammar? An earlier video of Christian touched on this which talked about ‘meaning-based’ learning. Instead of grammar the student receives comprehensible input (easily decipherable messages). CI is then anchored by means of physical movement and story. Most of the emphasis in the early stages should be on decoding the language. You can only meaningfully encode once you are able to decode. Speaking is the SPONTANEOUS RESULT of acquisition which happens through decoding. You can not acquire language by talking about it. If you want to learn to ride a bike, jump on. Don’t listen to dreary explanations about the fundamentals of balance.
03:51 "the way you combine words and change their form and position in a sentence, or the rules of this"
Since I know you and your videos, I always take a look at the etymology. 😍😍 It's unbelievable how easy and fast my brain saves then the new word. It's all about the story/ history storyI have then for a word. Thank you so much Christian. I live your you tube channel, your Instagram account and Facebook page as well. Greetings from Germany, Sandra
... You and your pizza... 😂😂😂
Greetings from Brasil. Thank you
Amazing video man, you make a complex sequence of reasoning to express an idea look simple as a wheather daily conversation.
I'll wait the next video!!
I always enjoy your videos so thanks
Thanks teacher, your style to teach is unique...
Hello Christian! I have followed a teacher from Brasil - Elisabeth Wagner who has the same way you have to teach -listen listen listen and reapeat.Not read and write as a child learn or a parrot.
You could interview her.She is more than 80 years old , a positive person.
Thank you!
Hello from Uzbekistan))😘😘
Thanks from amazônia, Brasil
Love this amazing guy... thaks Christian...
Great teacher
Learning a language is enjoying the language.
Great sir you are very interesting teacher
Damn, man, your videos are awesome. It is opens eyes on many things. Thank you for your magnificent work
Sir. It's very wonderful classes. Thank u very much
this is truly remarkable
philosophizing about the language.. Un abrazo desde Venezuela!
Excellent, Professor !
The kind of teacher you wish you had and hope kids get today.
You are a great human being! 🙏🏻
Christian, you're the best!
I loved the video so much...thanks a lot Christian...
Christian, thank you for your video. It's great, as usual.
I learn grammar, but I also try to use it. And that's why I don't feel bad about this :)
A friend of mine struggles with grammar because she likes to do grammar exercises without using it, and she deceives herself, I suppose. She thinks that she learns English, but actually, she just does grammar tests or something else. I hope I'll be able to explain to her that she needs to use it :)
It is as Dr Maturana said "language builds a reality"