Native speakers tend to follow rules our guidelines when they speak and write, and  these rules are soft, flexible and used differently in different places.

Native speakers don’t know WHY they say things in a certain way. If you ask them why, can they give you a reason, or do they just say ‘ho, this is just the way we say it’? I think if you do so, then they will answer you the later one.  After all, in most cases, we don’t know why we speak our mother tongue in certain particular way, we just say it to express the meaning we want to communicate, and we know just to say this we can put our point across to others.

In my own listening and reading, I have been able to identify patterns as to how native speakers say certain things in certain situations. For instance, in English if I want to say somebody do something in detail, I can say the embellished things after somebody and something to explain the word before, and the time and the place of what happens are always at the end of the sentence. It is the other way around in Chinese that we used to speak the embellished things before nouns. This is the general patterns. And I have identified some other patterns in certain situations.

In my own language learning, I didn’t find any pattern, and I just repeated and copyed the things what others said,  the same words or phrases,  to communicate the same idea. No analysis, no grammarate, and no structure. I find that my subconscious helps me to identify these patterns, and I don’t even realize that I have been able to identify these patterns. They are in my subconscious.

In a word, if we want to learn a language more fast and easily, then we need to do what native speakers do. Listening clearly first, remembering how to say certain things in certain situations, and then using these words and phrases more and more.