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Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog
Grammar is more easily learned when you cross languages. I learned more about English studying German than I did as an English major in college.
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Agreed.
The English curriculum over here is a joke - for three consecutive years of high school they dish out the old "This word is a noun and this one is a verb... don't confuse the two." and for some reason, people have major trouble grasping these concepts.
While enduring this tripe, I was also doing Latin as a subject and I learned more about grammar from half a year of that than I had ever learned in English classes... the pluperfect tense, the genitive case, the difference between who/whom, the subjunctive, the passive mood, reported speech etc... all things which the English curriculum pitifully fails to deliver.
Doing Latin has changed how I speak (I use many ablative absolutes) and has expanded my vocabulary (doing justice to old texts in translation requires a good vocabulary).