What do you mean I won’t assemble the grammar consciously?

Before uttering an English sentence do you perform the following operation: ’Well, I will start with an adjective, followed by a noun. Oh, yes, a definitive article in front of the whole thing, of course. Then comes the auxiliary verb for impossibility, the main verb and, what the hell, I’ll throw in a temporal clause at the end…’

Try how easy it would be to speak using the method above. And yet some part of you knows how to do this perfectly without you having to think about it. Isn’t it marvellous? Our aim is to attain the same unconscious achievement in the new language.

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