[Ninastar]

Originally Posted by Z

I'm of the opinion that we should be taught grammar classes from a young age so that 1) we don't have a nation full of morons who can't spell and 2) that if, when you're a little older (teens, early 20s) you fancy learning a foreign language, it isn't a total wasteland of grammar rules that are totally alien. It would make language learning so much easier and it would mean that kids aren't forced into studying French and/or German (which is clearly based on 1900s logic of what's important in the world) at the age of 12 with little to no understanding of what they're supposed to be learning - most language teaching is basically just repetition exercises so that kids learn how to pass exams, not actually think about the construction of the sentences they're trying to form.

Agreed!