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Originally Posted by ArcheM
It's also an important point, what constitutes "learning grammar". I've read the grammatical rules of Welsh, but I can remember only a couple, maybe. And that's happened to me with German at least once, when I read a grammar book, even did most of exercises in it, but a little while later was floundering in basic constructions.
So what do you mean by "learning grammar"?
Anyway, what I'm trying out for myself, is taking a Welsh text and trying to deconstruct it on paper, looking up grammar rules as they come up. I mean things like "eb." and "eg." above nouns (abrreviations for feminine and masculine) - also trying to keep English out of it as much as possible.
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I think I mean learning grammar by way of making sure I'm using the correct forms of words when, where amd how they're used, so I dont mess up and embarrass myself when speaking or writing in the language, I want to learn speakable, and written German so grammar should be a requirement fpr me at least (for others it may not be so much). That's my take on it anyways, ypur millage may vary on this.
Right not I just started greetings, and how there are formal replies to greetings like; Und Ihnen? (And you?) And then the answer Und dir? (And you?) or Und euch? (And you?).
Then the greetings themselves:
Danke gut (Fine, thanks)
Sehr gut (Very good)
Ganz gut (Really good)
Es geht (So, so) also means "it goes"
Nicht so gut (not so good)
These are some of the greetings they give, not bad I guess, because English has a lot of greetings aswell, so this can't be too hard.