French, and despite liking learning languages, I’m not that good at reasoning abstractly about grammatical rules; “accusative” and “nominative” are not very salient concepts in my mind, and I have to look them up to be sure of what they mean exactly.
I am lucky in that reasoning abstractly about grammatical rules is a good fit for the way my mind works; even so, I only got good at it after I learned a second language.
French, and despite liking learning languages, I’m not that good at reasoning abstractly about grammatical rules; “accusative” and “nominative” are not very salient concepts in my mind, and I have to look them up to be sure of what they mean exactly.
I am lucky in that reasoning abstractly about grammatical rules is a good fit for the way my mind works; even so, I only got good at it after I learned a second language.