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If you ever use Rosetta Stone, they call it "Immersion Method". They says we can learn anything as we can learn them when we were a child. We don't study grammar etc when we learned our first/mother language.

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Learning another language as I learned my first would mean hiring two native speakers to act as my parents, some more native/fluent speakers to act as my primary school teachers and a bunch of non-natives learning the language at the same time as me to act as my friends. Together, they would need to surround me for the majority of my waking hours and after 10 years, I would still be incapable of reading anything more complex than Harry Potter.

Of course, we do study grammar in our own language. We do it at school.

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