When should I start learning Japanese grammar?

[crihak]

Well… as I wrote in another thread recently, I’m probably in the minority here but…

When to start studying grammar

My approach for both Japanese and now also French has been to wait until I get frustrated because I don’t know enough grammar and then study grammar… Contrary to a lot of people it seems, I find grammar a lot easier to pick up when I: know a bunch of words already so I can focus on understanding the grammar points being taught have gained some measure of intuitive understanding of the basic grammar. (For example, in French ~ons and ~ez already sounded intuitively like first and second person …

EDIT: I actually did start with the grammar (Tae Kim), but soon gave up because I thought all the looking back and forth between the sample sentences and the vocab list was getting really frustrating. When I came back a few months later I didn’t have that problem.