Bagheera

I would say though that I don't have a good formal understanding of English grammar at all, really, but that I understand the languages limits and possibilities to the extent that I can hear when something does not sound *possible* as an English sentence, and can judge when something sounds more vs. less pleasing in that sense. Perhaps foreign language learning could focus less on structural issues (which I don't really comprehend in my own language and thus lack an analog for, and which do not seem very natural to consciously think of while speaking) and more on that sort of absorption and internalization of patterns that characterizes first-language acquisition?