This is like learning natural languages like French and mandarin. In school they make you do spellings and all the words need to agree in tense, number and so o

This is like learning natural languages like French and mandarin. In school they make you do spellings and all the words need to agree in tense, number and so on. So you think that's what the language is, a bunch of picky rules. You need a certain volume of material to see the real picture, and a novice won't have that.