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Originally Posted by kazbates
Being a teacher who has taught English or Language Arts as we now call it, I can admit that we do the same thing with our own language.
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My experience of guiding other people in the study of foreign languages has been, in recent years, that one of the major hurdles that many people have to overcome in learning a foreign language is that they've never been "formally" taught their
own language. If you're not equipped with the "vocabulary" to talk about your own language ("verb", "noun", etc), and you don't understand how it "works" from a grammatical perspective, then it's difficult to discuss any other language.