Change your wrong impression of grammar. If you're a non-native speaker, chances are your grammar isn't that bad. In fact, you studied a lot of English grammar in your elementary, middle school, and high school. Now the first thing you need to do is to unlearn the bad impression of grammar that you got. Grammar isn't dry, useless, dead, only paper-based, strict, and boring. Quite the contrary! Grammar is fun, practical, dynamic, situation-based, free, and exciting. That is, if your teacher had known how to teach it right. Grammar isn't something you can run away from in English. And Grammar isn't some scary, dictatorial monster anyway. You should start seeing Grammar as a friend who only gives you guidelines - not rules. In short, real Grammar says: "Do," not "Don't." Forget the myth of listening. The myth of Listening says that Listening is a zero-sum game: either you get it 100% or 0%. This is simply not true. If you're having a hard time making sense of what the other person (maybe a native speaker) is saying, don't be discouraged. More importantly, DON'T stop listening and thinking! .In home economics, there's a saying that goes: "There won't be a dollar without a cent."
Belinda