Obsessive compulsion to grammar study is counter productive for most language students. So says Spanish Only blogger, Ramses. I’ve found that to be true and try to live by that philosophy (as much as possible) as an English Teacher.
Most people know I don’t like stuyding grammar, most of you probably think I hate grammar. Well, it’s true that I don’t like to study grammar, but it’s not that I hate it. It’s just that I think it blurs your language ability and it’s pretty much certain that it destroys your ability to naturally form sentences.
At the moment, however, I do study grammar to bring my Spanish up to a native level (a good native speaker learned a huge chunk of grammar in school, which I missed and because of that I need to study grammar now that I’m fluent). And I like it, a lot. It gives me new ammunition and it really helps me now that I speak Spanish fluently.
But the problem with many people is that they think they need grammar right from the beginning. Of course you need grammar in order to speak correctly, but you don’t need to study it until you’re at an advanced stage.