09-24-2009, 05:27 PM
trisho. wrote:
I was taught the 2nd person plural in high school and in college (1997 -2001) but I think towards the end, teachers in high schools started phasing it out. By the time I left high school in 1997, I knew all 14 tenses of Spanish. I personally think the phasing out is just laziness and contributes to the stupefying of a language. Witness all the bad grammar & spelling mistakes native English speakers perform. It's to the point where I see sentences in NYTimes articles ending in "with", "for" or "to". Bleah!!
Yes. Learning a foreign language helps people to really understand the grammar of their native language; this is something that we just sort of intuitively understand.