My Thoughts on Learning English Grammar

So one of the most common

questions I get is, do I need

to learn English grammar?

Do I need to study English grammar?

And there's two things that

I want to say about that.

Two things.

The Bob the Canadian recommendation

when it comes to studying English

grammar as you learn English,

because some people say if you just

listen enough, if you just read

enough, you'll learn grammar

automatically.

And I actually think that's a good

idea, but I don't think that's

everything you should be doing.

So, number one, the first thing you

should be doing, and I've said this

before, so sorry if this sounds

like repetition to some of you, but

you should get a book written in

your own language, in your native

language that explains English

grammar.

This is incredibly helpful when

you can read in your own

language the

explanations for the different

verb tenses or phrasal verbs or

all of the other intricacies of

English grammar.

When you can have it explained

to you in your own language,

it's just incredibly valuable.

So that's recommendation number one.

Go find yourself a book.

I'm going to walk over here and get

out of the wind a little bit.

Go and find yourself a book

written in your own language

that explains English grammar.

Because English grammar is

complicated, and if you're just

trying to learn it by absorbing

it by listening and reading,

there's gonna be little things

that you would love to have

explained to you.

So find a book, buy it.

You're gonna have to spend a little

bit of money and use your own

language to help you understand

the crazy English grammar that

we use as English speakers.

Job number two, the second thing

that you should do, you should

simply learn how to talk

about the past, the present,

and the future easily in English.

So what I mean by that is you should

practice talking about the things

you did yesterday, the thing you

are doing right now, and the things

you are going to do tomorrow.

You should just learn

those structures.

For all of the most common verbs.

There are a ton of different

verb conjugations,

but if you can easily talk about

something you did yesterday,

like, yesterday I ate pizza.

Right now I'm eating pizza.

Tomorrow I'm going to eat pizza.

If you can talk fluently

using the past, the present,

and the future tenses, that's like

80% of what you need to know

to have a good English conversation.

So maybe do a search for, like,

the 10 most common English

verbs and literally memorize how

to use them with I

in the past tense, in the present

tense, and in the future.

So those are the two

things that I recommend.

I just think having a book that

allows you to have your own language

explain to you how the English

grammar works is excellent.

And I think practicing

and being ready to talk

in the past, the present,

and the future is just awesome.

Sorry for the short lesson today.

I'm gonna wrap this up.

I think my throat's getting

better, but I don't want

to push it too far by doing

an extravagant lesson this week.

So hopefully this advice

is helpful to you.

Hopefully this will help you

as you continue to learn this

fun and crazy and wonderful

language we call English. Bye.