Evelyne

'Upon' is a more formal version of the preposition 'on', though they are mostly interchangeable. The only time I can think of that upon would sound particularly better than on is in "She came upon a fox den while walking in the woods." instead of "She came on a fox den while walking in the woods." though both sentences are grammatically correct.

I've heard it sometimes in the US when people want to make themselves sound more intelligent or more formal.

Capitalization is also important for proper nouns. It signals that you are talking about a specific thing or person instead of a general one. For instance, if you are talking about a place called The Bar (that being the name of the establishment), capitalizing the name indicates that you are talking about a specific bar with that name instead of just some bar. It gives a bit of a point of reference.

I've also always used "each other" for two groups if the groups are being treated as a single entity. For instance "The teams eyed each other warily." I'm not sure if this is proper or not, but I believe it is.

That was a pretty interesting video! Thank you for sharing. I found myself trying to understand what they were saying and caught the gist if some of it, I think. I always thought that we'd sound a bit more German, not with the German accent of course, but the words themselves.

The Long Walk by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman is my favourite novella because it could so easily happen.

In English, birds will often go tweet, as a generic sound.

To monkey around: To cause trouble or waste time doing silly things.

I already saw the hyperbole and a half link, and this question seems fairly settled, but I thought it would be worth it to post another webcomic link that deals with 'a lot' and a few other oft misspelled words.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling

There are quite a few words that I know and don't get to use terribly often, mostly because they are words that are somewhat obscure or archaic. Here is a list.

Hie (verb): To go quickly. Example: I will hie to bed.

Avaunt (exclamation): Go away. Example: Avaunt, you fool!

Whither (adverb): To which/what place. Example: Whither go we?

Penultimate (adjective): Second to last. Example: I am the penultimate winner and I have the second place medal to show for it.

Because my mother tongue is English and I started reading at a young age, I read very quickly. I also learned most of the grammar rules of English from reading, as it wasn't taught very well in school.

Hello!

Nice to meet you all! I can't say I'm particularly skilled in many languages yet, but I have great ambitions. My goal is to become fluent in Japanese, French, German, and at least one iteration of Gaelic. It takes me a while to learn a new language and I'm working on Japanese and French at the moment, but I am trying! Thank you for reading my introduction and I hope you all are well!

I think grammar is important, because it can make learning the language easier in the long run. At least for me, I've always found it much easier to have the structure, the bones, of a language down and then add vocabulary on top of it. For me, everything just fits better.