LEARNING GRAMMAR, USEFUL OR NOT?

We do realize that learning grammar in English is so important. It taught us how to make a good sentence or the right sentence. By learning grammar we can understand the situation that we talk. We used the preterit, to make the past sentence and we use the infinitive to make a present sentence. But, there is a complicated thing that will happen when we learn grammar so seriously. Grammar will make us to be carefully and scared in speaking English. There are so many people understood about grammar but they can speak with the foreigner. And it is like the people who master in martial art, but they do nothing when someone hit or kick them. Sometime, if we want to talk with the foreigner, we need a lot of times to say “How long have you been here?” We need to think it first. Because, we are afraid to be wrong in speak. We ask in our heart, Is it past, present, future or continues tense. And this situation will make the foreigner boring to speak with us. The foreigners talk to us very fast and we talk to them very slow. We have to know that there are so many people in English do not understand very well about grammar. And funnily, we want to talk with them by using a perfect grammar. The reality shows that the foreigner who were born in English, speaking English without the perfect grammar. Sometimes, they talk by using an error grammar. For example: “it don’t matter”. If we investigate this sentence, it is wrong in grammar but the problem, the native speakers talk using that sentence. Another problem, if we ask them about the grammar they really do not understand about that. So, in this case, we can make a conclusion that grammar is not the first thing if we want to speak with the foreigner. Without thinking grammar in your own brain you can talk freely without feeling guilty inside. And the formulas to master in speaking are vocabulary and the high self confidence to practice. Because practice can make perfect. Exception, if you want to be a teacher or the master of English Grammar who can not speak in English very well, you have to learn grammar so seriously.