A Language Learning Tale

EPISODE 1 The Podcast on Spotify at:  A Language Learning Tale Find this episode on YouTube at:  Is Grammar Just for Nerds? Benvenuti, Bienvenue, Croeso and Welcome. Hi, I’m Juliet. Join me on a journey through my language learning process, in real time, and learn my thoughts on different aspects of language learning with the ALLT Podcast, which stands for A Language Learning Tale. Today I’m talking about… Is Grammar Just for Nerds, or, alternatively, Do You Need to Know Everything About Grammar to Learn a Language? Well, that’s a controversial question to start with, if ever I heard one and there will be many who have different and probably strong feelings on this subject. I come at this from an unusual perspective and for that we first need to go back to when I started Secondary School and was but a mere nascent language learner. During my time at Secondary School, back in the year dot -- before the advent of all the modern Year numbering, when we just said we were in the first ye