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Why grammatical correctness does not guarantee natural speech

I have perfect grammar in German but no intuition for what sounds natural and I know people can sense something artificial about how I speak.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Technical accuracy without cultural intuition produces communication that follows rules but lacks the organic flow of lived language.

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