How many of you are non-native English speakers? (lemmy.ml)

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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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[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

German here.

Basically 80-90% of my media consumption is in English.
I search (mostly) in English, read documentation in English and document my own stuff in a mix of English and German (we call this Denglisch in Germany (compound of (D)eutsch+Englisch)

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