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by tsimionescu 1965 days ago
To be fair, people were speaking German for hundreds of years without any formal education in grammar.

But the key point is that, while it is POSSIBLE to learn a language this way, it is definitely more efficient with some formal training as well, until you can develop the "ear" for it.

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> But the key point is that, while it is POSSIBLE to learn a language this way, it is definitely more efficient with some formal training as well, until you can develop the "ear" for it.

Agreed. This is the main point I was getting at.