blaurebell wrote:Voytek wrote:To gain the deep knowledge of a language you just have to be patient and do things methodically.
Personally I have never noticed any mistakes in Luca's English. I just listened to a video of his in English and specifically kept my ears open, but I couldn't find a single problem in a 6min video. And since you specifically speak about his use of articles, I hope you don't mind if I point out to you that there are several mistakes with articles in your own sentences. In the sentence I quote up top it would be "To gain deep knowledge ..." Overusing articles is a common problem depending on your L1. Today I actually figured out that I overuse articles in Spanish myself
That's why I keep struggling with the English grammar and I didn't put it aside.
By the way, I found two exemples where you can find "the deep knowledge of a language" here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/magazine-11086381
https://books.google.pl/books?id=sihrCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&dq=%22the+deep+knowledge+of+a+language+%22&source=bl&ots=shOPBFqzig&sig=QBjN02Kk1pQ4c9dkbUkXOiD5cEg&hl=pl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwii8drM2LjTAhVC6xoKHanDBM8Q6AEIJTAA#v=onepage&q=%22the%20deep%20knowledge%20of%20a%20language%20%22&f=false
And here with the zero article:
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/importance-of-the-foreign-language-study.html
I'm curious what teachers from the englishforums will say.
Thanks for your comment.