AIBU to ask for a return to teaching grammar in English lessons? This was something that irked me when I was doing my GCSE's back in '97 and is still going on now.
It came up when I was doing German at school when the teacher started talking about accusative and nominative cases and me not having the foggiest what they were in English to compare against the German words. Again the issue of verb conjugation came up; the teacher would ask you to conjugate a German verb in the form of: Third person plural present indicative, for example.
I ended up self teaching myself these aspects of English to help me in German and French. However, is it any wonder that we as a nation fail to learn foreign languages when we aren't taught our own in a way that allows you to learn another.
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blibbleflop · 25/09/2012 15:21
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