if they were not taught any English grammar and punctuation at all! Oh my god! :O
How can you play dice with the lives of an entire birth year of children? Just to see if most of them wind up in janitorial work or food service, or on the dole?!?
That is infuriating!
I'm so glad you were able to be helped with supplemental schooling for the things you should have been taught the first time around. I would never have guessed you had acquired all of this later in life-- you've done really well not just with the grammar and punctuation, but also with crafting story ideas and characters, and giving them life!
I learned traditional grammar and sentence diagramming and all of those things at school, and I did well at them. But what really put it all into perspective was taking German in high school. The tenses, the direct/indirect object constructs, all of those things work very much the same way as English. That 'outsider POV' helped make more sense of the things I'd been taught earlier-- it gave them a meaningful context.
We used to worry sometimes that our daughter was never going to quite 'get' many of those grammatical concepts, but by the 3rd year of high school French, it all suddenly 'clicked' for her. She became an Uber-writer, with an almost innate grasp of grammar! Our son, by contrast, was doing much better for many years because he read like a fiend and absorbed so much through osmosis. But he took Japanese all through high school, and it never helped him the way a Western language might have. He's getting it all now via his parents proof-reading his college essays, and the things he learns as a result of what he needs to correct.
/blather
Because really, the message I wanted here was, GO YOU! \o/
How can you play dice with the lives of an entire birth year of children? Just to see if most of them wind up in janitorial work or food service, or on the dole?!?
That is infuriating! Honestly what I was thinking!! D:
Thank you for your kind words. I really appreciate them.
How can you play dice with the lives of an entire birth year of children? Just to see if most of them wind up in janitorial work or food service, or on the dole?!?
EXACTLY! It's a terrible thing to do to people isn't it!
And similar to your German class, I also learned a lot more grammar when I studied British Sign Language a few years ago.
Oh my god! :O
How can you play dice with the lives of an entire birth year of children? Just to see if most of them wind up in janitorial work or food service, or on the dole?!?
That is infuriating!
I'm so glad you were able to be helped with supplemental schooling for the things you should have been taught the first time around. I would never have guessed you had acquired all of this later in life-- you've done really well not just with the grammar and punctuation, but also with crafting story ideas and characters, and giving them life!
I learned traditional grammar and sentence diagramming and all of those things at school, and I did well at them. But what really put it all into perspective was taking German in high school. The tenses, the direct/indirect object constructs, all of those things work very much the same way as English. That 'outsider POV' helped make more sense of the things I'd been taught earlier-- it gave them a meaningful context.
We used to worry sometimes that our daughter was never going to quite 'get' many of those grammatical concepts, but by the 3rd year of high school French, it all suddenly 'clicked' for her. She became an Uber-writer, with an almost innate grasp of grammar! Our son, by contrast, was doing much better for many years because he read like a fiend and absorbed so much through osmosis. But he took Japanese all through high school, and it never helped him the way a Western language might have. He's getting it all now via his parents proof-reading his college essays, and the things he learns as a result of what he needs to correct.
/blather
Because really, the message I wanted here was, GO YOU! \o/
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That is infuriating! Honestly what I was thinking!! D:
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How can you play dice with the lives of an entire birth year of children? Just to see if most of them wind up in janitorial work or food service, or on the dole?!?
EXACTLY! It's a terrible thing to do to people isn't it!
And similar to your German class, I also learned a lot more grammar when I studied British Sign Language a few years ago.
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