'Learning English'
For the last few days, we were reading a healthy debate on the importance of teaching grammar on the letter page. As a juvenile learner, I have something to say about it. Now-a-days English has become the language of top priority. But how grammar can help us being an expert in the language? Actually, considering English as a foreign language, we strictly believe that, we have to learn all the grammar techniques. But while learning mother tongue we don't need to do so and the fact is that we acquire command of our mother tongue spontaneously as well as implicitly. So, if we want to be fluent in English language like the native English speakers, we do not need to learn grammar rules as much. The major obstacle in our country is that, we do not have a proper environment to develop English language skills. Sometimes we make desperate attempts to get the vocabulary by heart. It is okay as we cannot acquire it implicitly. But the problem therefore is that, we do not find enough opportunities to use them. As a result we lose our so far enriched stock of word early. So, my view about learning English is that, we should create a proper environment where young learners can practise the language. Debate on usefulness of grammar is not much fruitful today but the thing we have to concentrate on is to making an environment where we can practise the language more efficiently.
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