Interesting that about intuition. I think it is entirely possible to have language intuition in a foreign language - if it can ever be 100% I can't say for certain. But I know I do have some kind of intuition when learning languages, and rely more on it than consciously remembering grammar. I remember when one day I pulled a spelling rule in portuguese out of thin air (can't remember what it was any more, but it was something like "of course this letter can't follow this one"), which no one had ever taught me. It was just my brain having made its own observations and letting me know. Everyone in the class was certain I had learned spanish before, which had a similar rule, but I hadn't.
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