How long did it take you until you could fully understand the example sentences?

[ChristopherFritz]

@Vallytine

(Yes, I have been slacking hard on Grammar. I’m as monolingual as they come so it’s hard to learn and fully understand concepts that are so ingrained in English that you never think about them, and because I have such a hard time parsing the information given into a concrete understanding, moving forward becomes very difficult. I currently only use Tae Kim’s guide with Bunpro for revising the grammar points.)

May I go off topic to recommend the Absolute Beginner Book Club? The more reading you do, the more you’ll come to recognize and understand the grammar. You’ll start to build up pattern recognition for the most common grammar before you know it. In the discussion threads, grammar gets talked about a lot, and you can ask questions on any grammar you don’t know that comes up in the book.

Master List of Book Clubs

Introduction There are several book clubs here on the forums. Reading along with a book club can provide a great source of motivation, and there are a lot of people to help you out with questions, enabling you to tackle harder content. Many of the book clubs have community vocabulary lists, so they can be a great resource even if you’re reading after the book club has moved on. Additionally, you’re always welcome to ask questions even after a book has been finished by a book club. People are al…