A Language Learning Tale

Podcast on YouTube: YouTube Link Podcast on Spotify: Spotify Link Benvenuti, Bienvenue, Bienvenidos, Croeso and Welcome. Hi, I’m Juliet. Join me on my language learning journey and discover my thoughts on different aspects of language learning with the A Language Learning Tale Podcast. Today I’m talking about… Should you forget about Grammar? You may have listened to a previous podcast of mine about the book The Language Game: How improvisation created language and changed the world, where they talked about the fact that when we talk, grammar often goes out the window. And no, I’m not just referring to talking in your target language, I mean when talking in your own language. At the time, I think I said it begs the question, why do we get so hung up about getting things right in a foreign language? Of course, what I mean by this is, why do we get hung up about the grammar in a foreign language? If the locals don’t, why should we? There are also people who say that you should only use c...

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...