G'day mate. How are you going? Today, I wanna talk about how to study grammar from scratch. Many of you guys might be struggling to master English grammar. Grammar is really straightforward, I think. A couple of points I wanna reiterate today. Well, let's begin.
First up, obviously English pronunciation is prerequisite for every English learner to master at a certain level, say at least 70% accuracy, but ideally the closer to 100% the better for sure. Why pronunciation? Look, assuming that you cannot pronounce English sentences at all, it's gonna be extremely hard to learn grammar, because you will have to remember everything based on each spelling, right? Indeed, spelling is indispensable to developing your English ability, but pronunciation is much more important than that. I've got to say, if you can pronounce each word correctly, then there won't be any problem at all. This is my humble opinion.
Ok, next up, to what extent does grammar and pronunciation correlate with each other? 100%!! Because, the best method for learning grammar with ease is gonna be reading aloud the text from cover to cover, which is one of the ways that I did in the past, say approximately 20 years ago. I wasn't born and raised in Australia, nor did I do any online eikaiwa at all in the course of learning English. What I did is what I'm saying right now. That's all mate. Grammar is grammar, even though what I'm using right now seems a bit off or outdated as opposed to the current real conversational grammar. Just pick up one of any grammar text, and then kickstart reading it aloud. You don't really need to think about like I have to remember everything. But what you should do is to make sure that you utilise example sentences for practising paraphrasing and talking to yourself. To this end, of course you've got to be fairly confident about talking to yourself in English. You just try to change the word and content using example sentences, so that you will gradually get used to the usage of any grammatical structure, vocabulary and expression as well without putting any extra effort to memorise them.
I'd highly recommend purchasing "Grammar in Use in Intermediate or Advanced" for learning grammar.
Ideally, it's better to read aloud everything, but if you are too hectic, then try to understand basic concept of each grammar rule and jump the gun to speak to yourself using example sentences. I reckon doing this practice should be enough to get accustomed to any new grammar rule. For instance, if you are using the sentence 'The cafe opens at 7:30 in the morning.", then I'd change like 'The nearest Coles opens at 8:00 in the morning and closes at 10pm between Mon- Fri.' Something like that. You just need to tweak a little bit. You don't have to create completely a different one. Looks easy, right? Try this way. And I'd say, this practice should be done by speaking, not writing, because speaking is much faster, easier and more effective in remembering.
That's all for today. Thanks for reading my blog. Chao!