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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;otlichnik, post: 5460635, member: 109731&quot;]Yes.&nbsp; But it also sadly means that those of us who grew up speaking English are at a handicap when learning other languages.&nbsp; I suspect that the vast majority of native English speakers are like me - raised with very little appreciation or understanding of any rules of grammar beyond the very basics.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have learned four foreign languages.&nbsp; Only one of which processed to real proficiency and stuck (French) due to both the length of the training and the fact I have to use it professionally.&nbsp; The other three were to give me basic survival skills on postings.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In all these cases I felt like a total moron in class as I realized I had little grasp of real grammar.&nbsp; Understanding what an adverb was wasn&#039;t too hard, but once we got to, say, transitive vs. insensitive verbs the separation between the linguists and polyglots versus us barely literates became abundantly clear.....</p><p><br /></p><p>SC[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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