wanted to study Japanese more, as well as for Japanese ESL students who rarely had chances to make friends with Canadian students. He says, “It was tough, but I enjoyed it a lot. I really like to teach something.”
He expresses, “Grammar was not that important any more.” Yet, he says he still needed grammar because he wanted to improve his English, and he wanted to be accurate. My understanding of this statement is that grammar rules in the grammar book became less important than other elements of language learning at this point as his English proficiency improved and he could communicate without consulting every grammar rules. By now, he has become a good communicator by practicing speaking a lot, and his perception of grammar has changed again. He says,