Play to your strengths
Matt Krause
Helping companies in eastern Europe communicate with their clients better
This goes out to all the Turks out there.
For years when you were growing up your teachers hammered you on grammar. From what I can tell, Turkish schools are basically a place where adults beat children with steel pipes and wooden baseball bats if they get a verb tense wrong.
So I have a secret for you: Language is a lot less about grammar than you've been led to believe.
What's the point of language anyway? Language is basically a way to take the sounds that come out of your mouth and turn them into something that others can understand. In other words, it's about telling other people what you are thinking.
A lot of you worry that your grammar isn't perfect. And you're right, it's usually not. But if you've gone more than a few weeks with the German, French, and Chinese people around you not saying, "Dude, man, we can't understand you," your grammar is doing the job.
Now's the time to learn those fancy words that you used to think basically meant the same thing, but actually have important differences. You've got one tool working good enough, now it's time to get used to working the other tool.
So if grammar is your strength, god bless you, use it. But if it's not, use whatever else is.
Play to your strengths.
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