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No, vocabulary is the hard part. It's where you spend most of learning time.
by sanxiyn 8y ago
No, vocabulary is the hard part. It's where you spend most of learning time.
- andai 8y agoIf you define vocabulary to include not just the words, but the appropriate usage-in-context, then sure. Arguably that's not a short formal list of rules you memorize, but an intuitive understanding of thousands of specific cases that can only be acquired through massive exposure to the language. I'm not sure what the word for that is, it's neither vocabulary nor grammar, and yet more important than either of them -- actually even more important than both vocabulary and grammar put together (lists of words and lists of rules).
- wongarsu 8y agoVocabulary is hard, but in asynchronous communication (like writing readmes) dictionaries allow you to reach far beyond your own vocabulary. Even choosing the right word for the specific context and audience is well covered by good dictionaries. For grammar there are barely any useful tools. Even tools like Gramarly are fairly primitive.