No, we shouldn’t ever stop learning English grammar

A few days ago, a new member of Jose Carillo’s English Forum who goes by the username Solid9asked for my opinion about an English teacher’s suggestion on YouTube that to become a better English speaker, one has to stop learning grammar rules. My immediate response was that it was just an attention-getting generalization. Indeed, when I checked the video, I found out that it was an overstated sales pitch for a legitimate English speech-improvement program.

Of course it would be foolhardy for English-language learners to stop learning English grammar. To become fluent in both written and spoken English, there simply are too many things to learn about its proper usage – vocabulary, semantics, syntax, structure, pronunciation, idioms, figures of speech, and more. In fact, to master any language other than one’s mother tongue, no “stop this-stop that” approach would work.