Yes, grammar rules first is an epidemic. Its a fact that even people who take a 2-4 year long university course in a given language are rarely fluent after they graduate. Academic study of language and actually speaking it in everyday usage unfortunately do not go hand in hand. And tagalog eh? I know lumipad means to fly
. I know about the whole Narda/Darna thing and awit na na na nawagen & darating kaya sound cool but I have no idea what the words actually mean
. Im a kamikazee fan if you cant tell.
Only two languages I actually speak with fluency are Esperanto and English. However, i have learned some words and the alphabets of many languaes. Hebrew, greek (for biblical purposes) i can usually read with the help of a dictionary cross referenced with literal translations. I want to be fluent in these and started down that road at one point, but I decided russian and spanish should be learned fluently first because they are more practical for modern day communication. I also started mandarin but totally gave up on it because the tones absolutely kill me. I have no interest in actually visiting china so I took Chinese off the list.
i have also dabbled in Arabic, French, a little German. Had some friends that were Czech teach me a few words. I have no vocabulary or fluency in any of those to speak of. I love language and have many interests, its why I decided to pick two and ignore everything else until those are learned well. Hebrew and Greek full fluency will be my next two projects after Spanish and Russian are licked. I'm assuming Cebuan is a local dialect of the Cebu province in the phillipines?