Internalize the grammar and the spelling too.
It’s a fallacy to believe that you can
learn a language by studying its grammar. And to a great extent the same
applies to spelling, despite the fact that schools try to teach you with
spelling lists and spelling rules.
The truth of the matter is that you mostly
just develop a sense what looks and feels ‘right’. This happens when you see
the same forms again and again. You get used to seeing words spelled in a
certain way, and words arranged in certain orders. (People who read and grade
papers with a lot of mistakes find that they begin to lose that sense!)
The thing then is to get a lot of exposure
to the language that you want to learn. Automatically you pick up grammar and
spelling along the way. There may be a few gaps left over, but you may learn them
as exceptions. It’s not the rule to learn the bulk in this way.
Even if you could learn all of the
rules—quite impossible, as no one has ever managed it!—it wouldn’t do you any good, as you wouldn’t be able to
retrieve and apply them rapidly enough for even ordinary conversation and texting.
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