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Its not about not learning grammar but learning the grammar by example and not as terminology and rules. Children learn their native grammar without knowing what an object is. In school you don't...

I did read a couple of grammar books front to back early on, and I still refer to them, read them again chapter-wise and even have some books on special linguistic topics such as particles, phonetics...

Lena, you're not wrong, but it's still the same thing: кто is the subject of its sentence, and кого, кому are accusative and dative objects respectively. You would still say что ты видел?, and that's...

Marcus, I learn languages by "osmosis" rather than by memorizing rules, I try to replicate the language learning of a child learning his mother tongue. As an adult I have the additional tool of...

I have to confess that while I never had any problem with such phrases I had to look up the reason why it is like it is in a grammar book. It's a distinction I had never really thought about before....

True. In the second sentence "you" is the subject and"what" is the object.

Compare: Who saw you? Who = subject, you = object. Who did you see? Who = object, you = subject.