Learning A Language From Scratch? Learn Complex Sentences First

Jayson Frascatore
6 min readJul 22, 2023

The main goal of language learning is all about communicating with others from different parts of the world and opening your worldview by learning from different cultures and the people around us. Though it’s also about breaking through some of the most difficult parts of any given language. For too long, the notion that we must only start with the basics of a language we’re learning for the first time — and that we can’t jump ahead — has been drilled into our minds since as far back as we can remember. It’s one of the most cliché myths of language learning. It’s as if that’s the only way to become someone else’s definition of “fluent”. One of the problems of language learning lies in the fact that people are learning canned sentences that often don’t sound natural whatsoever.

While it’s definitely a good thing to learn how to say some of the small sentences such as “How are you”, “What is your name”, “I’m good”, or any other basic sentences that might be used, we can’t just learn small talk if you want to maximize your potential at learning a language. You must break into the habit of learning the complexity of the language to help sound more natural when speaking or writing the language with questions and statements that will only strengthen your learning process. In order to expand upon it, we have to be ready for complexity at any…

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