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It is worthwhile putting a little effort into learning basic grammatical terminology, to my mind. It's very difficult to talk about language if you don't have the vocabulary to do so, and it makes learning a foreign language an awful lot easier if you understand how your own language is put together.
I've been leading tutorial groups in various ancient languages (Latin, Greek, and Ancient Egyptian) for many years now, and my experience has been that what causes the greatest difficulty in following the courses is a lack of knowledge of grammatical terminology. We get people who don't know what a verb or a noun are, let alone a predicate or a participle. I was fortunate in that I went to school at a time in the UK (the 1970s) when everyone was still taught formal English grammar. Many people today aren't, and it's a real stumbling block for learning other languages.
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