And few weeks before he just said to not studying grammar, again, making an argument against what schools do right now (which I agree), but leaving out the reality as a whole.
What I don’t like is pushing an idea at all cost just leaving out another part of the story! It is not because in school we teach grammar badly, that grammar is bad. This is the argument of a child!
https://forum.lingq.com/t/why-i-stopped-studying-grammar-and-what-i-do-instead-steve-kaufmann/144433
I just don’t like to “buy” in these marketing strategies, but that’s me and I don’t really have to defend anyone in particular, but I can share my ideas regardless.
Good for you, but that’s a tourist. Are you going to do the same to a person that is living in your country for 5 years? 10 years? And they speak and write poorly? Sure, you are trying to rationalise your feelings, but what I said before is different. It’s not that you regard to other people negatively. I said that you will immediately give respect to a person (especially if living in your country for a long time) that speak your language correctly. The more they speak it correctly, or write it, the more you will respect them. Maybe you could be the 1% that doesn’t, but the vast majority do like that.
Which means, that unconsciously we recognise the effort in learning a language, because we know it is not easy, and we respect who does that effort to learn ours.
In the same way, we respect people that write very well, or speak very well, even in our own language. Even if we don’t like them.
I don’t judge humanity, I just analyse it and learn from it.
Yes, the problem is that we improve speaking and writing how? Just by input and magically unlocking the language? They might believe in so, but I don’t.
You need correction, you need to know the rules of the language (without obsessing on it), and of course lots of practice. The better the supervision is, the better we become.
The prove is always there, are people blind? Most of native speakers are very bad at writing their own language, so definitely exposure and input is ZERO regarding writing. Plus, many students make a ton of mistakes after they get a degree in high school! In their own language.
By good teacher, I would mean someone that is competent and excellent. That they are capable to understand your mistakes and guide you to correct them, immediately. The higher you want to go with your writing, more excellent your teacher needs to be.
Supportive or not, at the end you need results, and you pay your teacher to get results.
IMHO.
Btw, considering the strong headache I have, I shouldn’t even writing in these days. So, if I sound too harsh, I apologize but it just occurred to me that I don’t even realise it at the moment. 