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Everyone seems so good at English so I wondered how many people learned it to such proficiency and how many are just natives

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[-] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

As a native English speaker I certainly won't process the words of a lot of songs without a conscious effort

Lyrics are so often indecipherable as well. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jGLYJQJh9c8

One that I remember is that I had heard the song "believer" a number of times before learning its name, I always thought they were saying "pick me up and pick me up and leave me, and leave me". I don't think I even tried to decypher the rest lol

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