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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
Re: grammar - for most languages, you have to learn grammar; there's no way around it. If you want to say "I have eaten" in French, you need to know that "ai" is the form of "avoir" that goes with "Je," and that "mangé" is the form of "manger" that means eaten when used with "J'ai."
But you don't necessarily need to know that "je" is a first person singular pronoun, that "mangé" is a past participle, or that the sentence is written in the present perfect tense and is in the indicative mood and the active voice.
(Eventually knowing this will be useful, especially if you learn additional languages. But early on, you need a few rules and a lot of examples and practice).
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What I meant is that you can "assimilate" grammar more easily by always learning whole sentences rather than just single words. When you see or hear them often enough, correct sentence structures become second nature, just like they do for a child learning its first language.