I used the internet to painlessly relearn a foreign language

Re:I used the internet to painlessly relearn a foreign language by daggerdrone on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @02:26AM (#24636184)

> but in the UK we don’t even get taught the grammar of English

This is interesting because in India schools do teach grammar and grammatical terms. I thought they copied it from the UK school system. May be UK used to teach grammar before 1947 (when India got independence) and then they stopped teaching it.

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Re:I used the internet to painlessly relearn a foreign language by richrichardsson on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @05:35AM (#24636972)

The problem is it's a nonsense. We 100% do get taught grammatical terms in the UK, but GP has just forgotten them/wasn't paying attention in school.

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Re:I used the internet to painlessly relearn a foreign language by kwhitefoot on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @12:09PM (#24640271)

Or they are old enough to have had exactly the experience they describe. I am 64 and was never taught any formal grammar in primary school except in French lessons and then in Latin from 1st form to 4th form. We were taught English usage by example and expected to write essays in good English but we never analysed sentences to mark verbs and nouns, etc.

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