Have you ever noticed that native speakers actually don’t know the reasons why their own language works the way it does. And logic rules don’t always explain the way a language works. Just like the above sentence. If it works by  its logic rules, we can say ‘logic rules don’t always explain the way a language works in’.However, in normal speech, we often say it ‘the way the language works’.

Does Chinese work a certain way because somebody said it should work that way? Or, do people just seem to agree that it works that way? Definitely, people just seem to agree that it works that way.

When we came into this world, we learned how to speak, and we didn’t know the any rule of how to speak. We even didn’t know the labels for the different parts of the language. The only thing we know was that if we wanted to express something, what I needed to say to achieve our task. The things we speak are all conventions that are commonly agreed agreements. Grammar is just a tool to help us to remember more common conventions. Grammar doesn’t matter, and if you don’t learn history to help you to remember words, asking why is just an unnecessary extra burden. It’s more useful for you to know what you need to do and how to do it. Focus on what and how, not why.Observing what happens as the result of what you try to say. Knowing what words create what results, and then saying exactly the thing you want to say over and over again. That will help your language learning smoother.