What do you need to know about the structure of your target language? How will you acquire the knowledge you need? Do you think a reference grammar can be useful? Why or why not?
To learn Czech, I need to know more about how the language can be used in daily conversation. I think one of the problems with learning a language is that they are too structured and sometimes too formal. Some of the situations that we learn are not applicable in real life, which is why people struggle to listen and speak the language. They are looking for words and phrases they learned in the textbook. While I do think it is very important, children do not learn the complete structure of their language, they learn what they need to thrive in society. To acquire the knowledge I need, I need to integrate myself with more Czech media such as newspapers, articles, tv shows, movies, and music. I think a reference grammar can be useful, but I think becoming dependent on a reference is bad because in their mind, the person speaking the language might take too long to conjugate the verb.
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