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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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[-] nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

Native Indonesian and Javanese. Almost all Indonesian speaks one of the local languages + Indonesian as the country has 700+ of unique languages.

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

English is my third language, but I read a lot of English books as a kid and spent a lot of time in English-speaking circles. I don't feel disadvantaged compared to a native speaker as I'm fluent and have been speaking English for a long time.

[-] Core_of_Arden@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago
[-] myszka@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

This sounds almost as if you're disappointed XD

[-] Core_of_Arden@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

That was projecting something... XD

[-] FireWire400@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'm German. Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit oder so...

Mostly taught myself English, since our educational system sucks so much.

[-] arthur@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

Second language here

[-] GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

I am, my spelling and grammar are rusty as hell, so I'm here to practice. I've found that people are too nice to correct my mistakes (which I make a ton of), so I usually catch them myself re-reading my comments :s.

[-] FisicoDelirante@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'm Argentinian. I began studying English early in my childhood and I love learning languages.

[-] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I don't know how good my English is, but it's my third language. Bengali and Hindi are my first two. I speak a couple more languages closely related to these (e.g. Urdu, Punjabi, Assamese, Odia, Sanskrit etc. Also been trying to learn French). But I can't read or write in them.

I learnt English from two sources. My reading and writing abilities mostly come from school. I had some pretty good teachers, who encouraged reading newspapers to learn English. At least in my case, it really helped.

When it comes to speaking and understanding spoken English (with all its irregularities due to accents and whatnot), watching movies and cartoons helped. I used to download and watch all kinds of movies during high school, possibly some that I shouldn't have watched at that age. My love for movies is basically what made me somewhat competent in the spoken aspect of English. (It also got me into piracy, and ultimately into FOSS, so I guess I owe a lot to the great directors whose movies were hard to find legally lol.)

[-] RockBottom@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

I can‘t say, but my best guess is 40 %.

[-] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 1 points 2 weeks ago
[-] myszka@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Io invece lo sto imparando! Amo la lingua e la cultura

[-] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 2 points 1 week ago

Ottimo! Si é una bella lingua, sulla cultura non mi espirmo, non posso essere considerato proprio un italiano tipico.

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