Gerunds!
We all love gerunds. They’re so furry and cuddly.
Certainly, I’ve learned more about English grammar in Latin then i ever did in English class.
Perhaps, but a- also exists in Latin, as an abbreviated form of ab, and it would be abbreviated in this case, because aviator is smoother than abviator.
I learned a lot of physics when I took mathematics classes.
I learned a lot of mathematics when I took science and engineering classes.
I agree that you learn more about your own language when learning a new language…makes you think about word order and the origins of words.
I tried (with little success) to learn Chinese in college. My tutor, a lovely woman from Taiwan, spoke seven or eight languages fluently. She told me her “trick” was to use the new language to learn the newer language.
For instance, I think she learned Japanese as her first foreign language, then she learned French by using Japanese/French language books, then she learned English by using French/English language books, etc.
She said that by using that method, she learned the languages twice - the first time as a newbie, and the second time as a tool to learn the newer language.
I learned a lot about English when I studied Pool.
I learned a lot about English studying German, but no way near as much as I did when I tutored ESL. OMG having to explain why why why for everything you say you think really long and hard about your language. Try explaining simply why the negative of I sang is “I didn’t sing.” Explain when you should say “I’ll get the car” vs. “I’m going to get the car.”