[INFO] Why you can't just "learn the grammar rules" of a language

The idea that English is an exception when it comes to grammar rules is a myth.<br><br>While English is pretty permissive, it's not entirely weird, and most English speakers can intuitively tell what's grammatical and not. For example, "me munched the bread" is not a grammatical English sentence, even though nobody explicitly taught us that it isn't. Hell, many people can't even explain *why* "me munched the bread" is grammatical, and many of them will invent a rule out of thin air. <br><br>Every language of the world has this. <br><br>When we see a sentence, we are not going through a checklist of grammar rules. We are not even doing this in our native language. What we're doing is that we're seeing if the sentence fits a pattern we are familiar with. If we don't know the pattern, we try to make one out of thin air. <br><br>So, if you want to learn a language, you need to practice. The more you practice, the more you can intuitively tell whether a sentence is grammatical or not. There is no other way to learn grammar.