I feel quite dumb because of this, but basically back in school (I’m 25) I didn’t learn a lot of things due to the extremely bad education in my country, and one of those things is grammar in general, I have no idea what things such as passive, active, direct, indirect, conditional, subjunctive, etc etc, are. Sometimes I even forget the meaning of nouns and adjectives lol, I simply just use them.
English is my second language, and I basically learned it via immersion, without looking into any specific grammar rules, although it took years.
There were some negatives with this of course, such as being unsure if what I wrote is correct in more niche situations/contexts as I wasn’t exposed to them (immersion), and generally making mistakes and not noticing.
Said that, my ask is if I should continue learning Japanese the way I am now, with immersion, learning vocab, Kanji, etc and just go with it (I’m probably around mid N5), or if I should be more “technical” and study grammar more carefully and learn what everything means.
Currently, things such as conjugating a word correctly, how the phrase should be formatted (object, subject, verb), etc, I just learn them by hearing/reading enough times so that it feels “natural” to use X instead of Y.
I know I could just learn grammar so I don’t feel dumb, but with everything else going on (in my life) I’m not sure if I should start it now.
Edit: Thank you all for the awesome advices! Didn’t expect to get that many comments
by caick1000