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Re:Language Learning Difficulty for English Speakers by henrikschroder on Friday November 27, 2009 @05:29AM (#963696)
When you go to school in Sweden, you get taught a Swedish grammar that is also slightly wrong, but one that makes Swedish to be closer to Latin than what it is. The purpose of this is to make it easier to learn the other big European languages like English, German, French or Spanish.

However, if you take linguistics at university level in Sweden, the first thing they tell you is to forget everything you were taught earlier, because a lot of it is wrong.

I'm really curious if this actually works, if it really makes it easier for kids to learn the other languages by learning a wrong version of grammar for their own language.

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Re:Language Learning Difficulty for English Speakers by Kliment on Friday November 27, 2009 @11:19AM (#964027)
Actually, I meant it the other way around. Teaching a grammar that is constructed from the language, not one that fits better to Latin. I think it would help if each language was thought with a specialized grammar for that language rather than through subsets and hacks on top of a "universal" one.
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