The article shits on the grammar-first approach to language learning because the students end up with knowledge that is isn’t sufficient to read books (I.e. imp

The article shits on the grammar-first approach to language learning because the students end up with knowledge that is isn’t sufficient to read books (I.e. impractical). However, I disagree that it’s the wrong approach. If you teach a student the grammar of a language, then they’re able to fill in the blanks in their vocabulary whenever they find time in life. If, instead, you focus on vocabulary first, then they may never find the time to make the sizeable investment into learning the difficult grammar that they’re missing. Also the grammar can 10x for some languages - learn the grammar for one Romance language and you’re now much more familiar with the grammar of the rest.