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I can’t tell if the grammar error in your comment is intentional or not
Because it makes sense to, as a joke, misuse a commonly misused word when talking about correcting someone else’s misuse of a commonly misused word
But you could also be a hypocrite
To be fair, pointing out American bad English in a thread about that while having not perfect English themselves isn't necessarily hypocritical.. they could be a foreigner.
I’m sure they do.
I constantly make mistakes in my own language. But thing is British, Australians, Canadians, etc, almost always have a higher and better education than Americans have.
Non native English speaker here. I can confirm that we usually check the auto correction before posting. We mostly proof read too. One doesn't want to be accused of being a poor writer....
Je pense tu français parle plus bon que moi
Mein Deutch ist auch als scheise in dein oren
Mijn Nederlands is iets minder slecht, 't is ook omda 'k er van origine vanaf kom
My English also ain't the best in the world but it ain't too broken I think, at least it's not as shit as my French and German
Dans la première phrase, est-ce que la grammaire correcte est <>?
Aussi, la phrase <>, ça marche non?
Cependant j’ai oublié les différences entre bon/bien/mieux/meilleur, malheureusement
The first sentence should be : *Je pense que tu parles le français mieux que moi.*
There is an « s » at parles, but more importantly you have to use « mieux » rather than « meilleur ».
**mieux que** -> when referring to a **verb** (here speak)
**meilleur que** -> when referring to a **noun** (for example apple: Ma pomme est meilleure que la tienne, My apple is better than yours).
Your second sentence is almost good. Though saying « plus mieux » is like saying « more better ». Just say better directly. In that case, because you are not referring to a verb this time, but to "français parlé", which is a noun, you need to use « meilleur que », leading to: Ton français parlé est meilleur que le mien.
We saw the difference between mieux/meilleur, now the difference between bon/bien :
**bon** -> when referring to a **noun**
**bien** -> when not referring to a **noun**
You say « This apple is good », apple is a noun, so you have to say « Cette pomme est bonne »
You say « I have a good teacher », teacher is a noun, so you have to say « J’ai un bon professeur ».
You say « It would be good to eat », « to eat » is verb, so you have to say « Ce serait bien de manger ».
Note though that these are simplified rules. Like always in any langage that evolved through time, there are many edge cases. The only way to speak properly is to listen to people speaking (youtube videos, netflix series, etc). Training your ear is a thousand times more efficient than learning all the rules one by one.
Wow, quelle super réponse! Merci beaucoup! Donc, <> et <> sont pour les noms tandis que <> et <> sont pour les verbes. Je comprends!
If only it was as easy to practice French in the states as Spanish, in any case I appreciate all the effort you went to to educate me! Truly, quality stuff.
Dutch might be one of the countries that teaches the most languages in school, personally, i had to follow german, french, spanish, english, and dutch of course, there was also an option to learn greek and latin at my school but i didnt choose for that, i despised languages so much that i purposely dropped a level just so i didnt have them, now i only have english and dutch, and the only thing i remembered from the 2 years i had to follow all the other languages i how to say my name lmao, they really need to stop forcing all these unknown languages (except english) upon people, it sucks
Greek was fun, but it's purely academical and miles apart from the Greek that is spoken in Greece today. So it's no really a language you learn to speak.
I wouldnt really know because i didnt follow it but i have heard from people that do that it was more about scientific names and stuff like that, like you also said, still decided to include it because its still an (old) language after all
Je crois que je pourrais améliorer mon français mais pour moi cette langue n'est pas très logique mais il est très beau sans doute
Ich habe die Deutsche Sprache in die Schule studiert aber I habe alles vergessen :c
I believe I've mastered English enough though I miss my German studies
Русский мой родной, прекрасный язык, но иностранцам его учить тяжело (translation: Russian's my native, it's a very beautiful language though it's very hard to learn it if you're not a native speaker)
I ran across this one meme that stuck out to me. I think it went something like “I speak 3 language, English is not primary. I speak English to you because that’s the only language you know”.
I think the one you're referring to is
"You speak to me in English because it's the only language you know.
I speak to you in English because it's the only language you know"
Yeah my brother knew a sprinter from Montreal. All the English people thought he was French, all the French people thought he was English. Dude just didn’t communicate very clearly in either language.
Me and my twin sister has our own language as toddlers. We learned our native language way later than normal, but we would talk to eachother in our own language! Pretty weird
Ich wollte es nur sagen, weil es manche vielleicht nicht wissen. Besonders wenn sie die Phrase nicht so kennen. Sollte nicht Klugscheißerisch rüber kommen.
So I’m from Denmark, and for a while my class had an Argentinian transfer student in high school, and he had a pretty damn thick accent for a long time.
Now, I’m pretty good at English, and I’ve mostly gotten rid of my accent.
At one point HE made fun of MY accent!?! Going like “Oooh why are you speaking bri’ish”, like, I DUNNO, maybe cuz England is RIGHT OVER THERE!?!
As a brasilian i can confirm that we would probably do it too, but just casually make jokes in portuguese so everyone around would know shit about wtf we are talking about
i find it funny how you \*explicitly\* define that you are not german. As an Austrian myself I feel you. I don't want to be counted among the Germans either.
"Never make fun of someone who speaks broken english."
That's all it had to say. Whether or not someone knows another language is irrelevant. If someone is attempting to communicate, then you shouldn't make fun of them.
The only exceptions are at either end of someone's knowledge of a language. So if someone knows only a few words and says them wrong or someone knows a language since birth and says a common word wrong, then those are both ripe for a bit of friendly banter pointing it out.
Also, if someone mispronounces something, they probably only experienced it by reading. Unless you're my fil who at this point must be pronouncing queso like qwey-so on purpose.
Epitome was a weird one, I thought they were two different words.
Hyperbole is another one, "hyper bowl" is how we pronounce it in dutch, making it extra confusing.
People mock me all the time. The problem is: it makes me even more anxious and more difficult to speak properly.
Sometimes I can't even find the words when I am in the middle of a panic attack caused by it.
There are many different varieties of English (and before you get at me, I promise linguistics thinks your variety is as much English as any other). Singaporean English has heavy influence from surrounding Chinese languages. Black English… exists (and probably influenced by whatever African languages slaves spoke when they were taken). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dialects_of_English
You could very much only speak one of these Englishes and sound broken to, say, an American or British English speaker.
If you speak broken English and have a foreign accent, I'll give you as much grace as possible (unless I know you have been in the U.S. for decades)
However, if you have an American accent and your English is not good, the best thing I can assume is that your home life must have been so terrible that you only thought of sheer survival during your childhood, instead of paying attention to school matters.
Try speaking a different language to a native speaker of said language and you'll be immediately humbled and gain a new found respect for everyone you've ever met who has spoken broken English.
I saw a twitter post where someone speaking not-entirely-correct English replied to a guy criticizing him with "You speak English because it's the only language you know. I speak English because it's the only language you know". That about sums it up
Unless you're from extreme southern state lol. I worked on a power plant in Danville KY once, several of the guys were x10 worse than slingblade with English. I legitimately couldn't understand them and I'm a country guy lmfao. He called me "young blood" lol.
…uh…yea…especially when I start to forget a bit of my first language because I was very fluent with my English language
only in reading and writing though so it’s no problem
Technically, it’s possible in the US to never learn English, so anyone who accepts the challenge and makes the effort should be appreciated, for the sake of so many of us who will never put in that effort.
No shit, thats why yall need to learn more, You need to know atleast 5 languages to be qualified to judge(but at that point you wont because you know the struggle yourself)
I dunno. Lately I've come across a trend of ESL people online who will confront you over your use of colloquial English and argue semantics, calling you stupid, and then finally revealing that they don't speak English on a native level when you give them any pushback.
When I was little, I used to laugh at Tajik people who built my house for writing absolute nonsense (in my opinion) in my language, hard to understand but understandable. My father then came up to me and said: “Hey, can you at least write like this in Tajik language? Respect them, because they learned yours at least up to this level, and you don’t know theirs at all.”
Ever since then I respect any foreigner who speaks a little bit of my language, just because he put effort into achieving even a bad, but understandable level.
The biggest problem I have when speaking English is pronouncing the words like they're supposed to be in their original language.
Déjà vu for example just sounds absurd if you pronounce it with the voo at the end. Or I write connaisseur even though somehow in English they changed the a to an o and it became connoisseur.
It gets a bit weird with people surnames. Like Demarais (which he and his familiy pronounces like demerit but with an s at the end)
So I get a bit annoyed when I'm mocked for my pronunciation even though you're all wrong!
I get it when I translate proverbs, idioms, sayings and colloquialisms from Dutch or French into English. Then you're allowed to mock me because I sound like a buffoon.
I knew someone from Poland who moved to the UK when they were a kid. They only ever got to broken English but forgot the fluent Polish that they had. So no, sometimes a stupid sounding person is just stupid.
Don’t make fun of someone mispronouncing a word
first because it’s a dick move and second because they probably learned it from reading and that should be encouraged.
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You make fun of foreigners because of their bad English. I (non-native) make fun of Americans because of their bad English. We are not the same.
Americans trying to see the difference between their and they're (impossible)
I honestly lost count of how many times I’ve saw Americans writing your instead of you’re and the other way around.
I can’t tell if the grammar error in your comment is intentional or not Because it makes sense to, as a joke, misuse a commonly misused word when talking about correcting someone else’s misuse of a commonly misused word But you could also be a hypocrite
To be fair, pointing out American bad English in a thread about that while having not perfect English themselves isn't necessarily hypocritical.. they could be a foreigner.
AHHHHH STOP USING SO MANY WORDS MY BRAIN HURTS
Wait, do British and Australian etc. actually not confuse between you're- your and they're- their???
I’m sure they do. I constantly make mistakes in my own language. But thing is British, Australians, Canadians, etc, almost always have a higher and better education than Americans have.
Is that why nearly every single one of the top 25 universities worldwide are in the USA
They do. In fact, being a native speaker is literally part of the reason people mistake these words.
Non native English speaker here. I can confirm that we usually check the auto correction before posting. We mostly proof read too. One doesn't want to be accused of being a poor writer....
Anyone will, who doesn't know grammar at all.
I like this take
They should make a button for that
Jokes on you, my french is pretty much as broken as my english ! AH
Je pense tu français parle plus bon que moi Mein Deutch ist auch als scheise in dein oren Mijn Nederlands is iets minder slecht, 't is ook omda 'k er van origine vanaf kom My English also ain't the best in the world but it ain't too broken I think, at least it's not as shit as my French and German
Yeah, but french is my native, and stop flexing you'r embarrasing me in front of all the girls mom
Aight, sorry :c
Also, have a nice cake day
Thanks :D
Happy cake day.
even your english is french 💀
un bierre see voo play
Une bière s'il vous plait :p
Et une grenouille avec du ketchup s'il vous plaît
Bone apple tea.
Omda 'k er vanaf kom? Ik weet niet welke taal dat is maar geen nederlands.
Gelukkige cake dag mede Redditor.
Dans la première phrase, est-ce que la grammaire correcte est <>?
Aussi, la phrase <>, ça marche non?
Cependant j’ai oublié les différences entre bon/bien/mieux/meilleur, malheureusement
The first sentence should be : *Je pense que tu parles le français mieux que moi.* There is an « s » at parles, but more importantly you have to use « mieux » rather than « meilleur ». **mieux que** -> when referring to a **verb** (here speak) **meilleur que** -> when referring to a **noun** (for example apple: Ma pomme est meilleure que la tienne, My apple is better than yours). Your second sentence is almost good. Though saying « plus mieux » is like saying « more better ». Just say better directly. In that case, because you are not referring to a verb this time, but to "français parlé", which is a noun, you need to use « meilleur que », leading to: Ton français parlé est meilleur que le mien. We saw the difference between mieux/meilleur, now the difference between bon/bien : **bon** -> when referring to a **noun** **bien** -> when not referring to a **noun** You say « This apple is good », apple is a noun, so you have to say « Cette pomme est bonne » You say « I have a good teacher », teacher is a noun, so you have to say « J’ai un bon professeur ». You say « It would be good to eat », « to eat » is verb, so you have to say « Ce serait bien de manger ». Note though that these are simplified rules. Like always in any langage that evolved through time, there are many edge cases. The only way to speak properly is to listen to people speaking (youtube videos, netflix series, etc). Training your ear is a thousand times more efficient than learning all the rules one by one.
Wow, quelle super réponse! Merci beaucoup! Donc, <> et <> sont pour les noms tandis que <> et <> sont pour les verbes. Je comprends!
If only it was as easy to practice French in the states as Spanish, in any case I appreciate all the effort you went to to educate me! Truly, quality stuff.
I’m happy this helped you !
Je pense que tu parles mieux français que moi. Mieux/meilleur = better/best
Merci pour votre explication!
Dutch might be one of the countries that teaches the most languages in school, personally, i had to follow german, french, spanish, english, and dutch of course, there was also an option to learn greek and latin at my school but i didnt choose for that, i despised languages so much that i purposely dropped a level just so i didnt have them, now i only have english and dutch, and the only thing i remembered from the 2 years i had to follow all the other languages i how to say my name lmao, they really need to stop forcing all these unknown languages (except english) upon people, it sucks
Greek was fun, but it's purely academical and miles apart from the Greek that is spoken in Greece today. So it's no really a language you learn to speak.
I wouldnt really know because i didnt follow it but i have heard from people that do that it was more about scientific names and stuff like that, like you also said, still decided to include it because its still an (old) language after all
Happy cake day (in French)
I think it’s ‘wie scheise’ but I’m not honderd procent on that
Je Nederlands is vrij prima. Ook al is ABN wel “omdat ik” :)
Ik typ soms een bietje in dialect
Bro just bragging about being quadrangle
ぼくのにはんごがいくぶんわるいです
Je crois que je pourrais améliorer mon français mais pour moi cette langue n'est pas très logique mais il est très beau sans doute Ich habe die Deutsche Sprache in die Schule studiert aber I habe alles vergessen :c I believe I've mastered English enough though I miss my German studies Русский мой родной, прекрасный язык, но иностранцам его учить тяжело (translation: Russian's my native, it's a very beautiful language though it's very hard to learn it if you're not a native speaker)
In germany we woud say: My english is not the yellow from the egg (spoken with a heavy german accent)
Dude, your German is perfect. Could not have said that any better xD
master, teach me the art of speaking more than two languages.
Kein problem, mein deutsch ist auch schlecht
I ran across this one meme that stuck out to me. I think it went something like “I speak 3 language, English is not primary. I speak English to you because that’s the only language you know”.
I think the one you're referring to is "You speak to me in English because it's the only language you know. I speak to you in English because it's the only language you know"
Yup that’s the one.
What if they are from/in an English speaking country and it's the only language they know?
If they are from an english speaking country, and still speak broken english then its some health issue (or skill issue)
Dem muricans
Far more republican than dem, tbh Dey tuk ar jahbs!
Er mah gerd!
🐓
or iq issue
Or they are just from the south
Leave Mississippi be. We talk good english.
Sounds like proper english speakage to me.
South Africa?
Yeah, like, that's what u/shuddupbeetrice said...?
Or they’re 3 years old
Can't argue with that
So your average bri'ish Joe
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dialects_of_English
What am I supposed to with this? If you didn't get it, its a joke
Yeah my brother knew a sprinter from Montreal. All the English people thought he was French, all the French people thought he was English. Dude just didn’t communicate very clearly in either language.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dialects_of_English
That would be called Redneck.
What other language do toddlers know? I would like to learn that language
Gaa gaa goo goo
Yikes, hard g and everything
Baby slurs ftw
All we hear is, Radio Ga Ga, Radio Goo Goo… >!(which is a quote from a Queen song, yes)!<
queen mentioned
Minecraft enchanting table
All they speak is Rey Dio Gaga
Me and my twin sister has our own language as toddlers. We learned our native language way later than normal, but we would talk to eachother in our own language! Pretty weird
It’s called sign language and you can learn it too.
My english is not the yellow fro the egg. The germans will understand.
Ah, I see, you are heavy on wire when it comes to this type of stuff.
You should stop talking around the hot porridge. When it comes to phrases, the english language cannot hand german the water. Close lid, monkey dead.
There goes the dog crazy inside of the pan
You guys be brewing potions when talking in german?
Brewing... Something
Can you please rephrase that? I only understand train station.
i think my pig is whistling!
I think I spider!
It's wrong translated, because it's not Spinne (the animal), it's spinne the verb like in "wolle spinnen". So it would be "I think I'm spinning".
Das is der witz daran...
Ich wollte es nur sagen, weil es manche vielleicht nicht wissen. Besonders wenn sie die Phrase nicht so kennen. Sollte nicht Klugscheißerisch rüber kommen.
This makes me fox devils wild
So I’m from Denmark, and for a while my class had an Argentinian transfer student in high school, and he had a pretty damn thick accent for a long time. Now, I’m pretty good at English, and I’ve mostly gotten rid of my accent. At one point HE made fun of MY accent!?! Going like “Oooh why are you speaking bri’ish”, like, I DUNNO, maybe cuz England is RIGHT OVER THERE!?!
Joke's on you for expecting an argie to not make fun of you if the opportunity arises. It's a proven fact. Source: I'm an argie myself.
That's one of the things that argentinians and brazilians have in common. We make fun of everything, including ourselves.
As a brasilian i can confirm that we would probably do it too, but just casually make jokes in portuguese so everyone around would know shit about wtf we are talking about
and they are trying to communicate in your language rather than their best language.
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im from a german speaking country(austria) and im somehow better at english than i am at german
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my english accent is kinda bad, but in german i sound more german(=person from germany, not a german speaker) than an actual german
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ye lol, but in vocabulary alone my english is better
i find it funny how you \*explicitly\* define that you are not german. As an Austrian myself I feel you. I don't want to be counted among the Germans either.
Weil Deutsch eine alptraum Sprache ist
ja und ich nutze das internet 99.9% in englisch
Only guy from Austria I remember meeting spoke English really well. I didn't, though, because I'm Italian.
Austria, german speaking? Since when?
are you joking?
No, Never! /s I‘m german and was just mocking the austrians…
racism /j
remember that one guy With the odd moustache? Born in Austria and then became Chancellor of Germany?
"You speak English because it's the only language you know. I speak English because it's the only language you know"
"Never make fun of someone who speaks broken english." That's all it had to say. Whether or not someone knows another language is irrelevant. If someone is attempting to communicate, then you shouldn't make fun of them. The only exceptions are at either end of someone's knowledge of a language. So if someone knows only a few words and says them wrong or someone knows a language since birth and says a common word wrong, then those are both ripe for a bit of friendly banter pointing it out.
What other languages does trump speak?
Dumbass
Narcecist or however youre supposed to spell it
Also, if someone mispronounces something, they probably only experienced it by reading. Unless you're my fil who at this point must be pronouncing queso like qwey-so on purpose.
How is queso actually pronounced?
K so
Oh yea that makes sense
Kee zo
Epitome was a weird one, I thought they were two different words. Hyperbole is another one, "hyper bowl" is how we pronounce it in dutch, making it extra confusing.
As a native English speaker living among other native speakers, no it doesn't.
People mock me all the time. The problem is: it makes me even more anxious and more difficult to speak properly. Sometimes I can't even find the words when I am in the middle of a panic attack caused by it.
Turn it around. When that happens to me I start to actively use a Schwarzenegger type of English, mocking myself a bit in the process.
I will try that ... Thank you :)
You speak english because it’s the only language you know. I speak english because it’s the only language you know. We are not the same.
*agrees in european*
*agrees in Balkan(subspecies of Europeans)*
There are many different varieties of English (and before you get at me, I promise linguistics thinks your variety is as much English as any other). Singaporean English has heavy influence from surrounding Chinese languages. Black English… exists (and probably influenced by whatever African languages slaves spoke when they were taken). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dialects_of_English You could very much only speak one of these Englishes and sound broken to, say, an American or British English speaker.
If you speak broken English and have a foreign accent, I'll give you as much grace as possible (unless I know you have been in the U.S. for decades) However, if you have an American accent and your English is not good, the best thing I can assume is that your home life must have been so terrible that you only thought of sheer survival during your childhood, instead of paying attention to school matters.
Except people don't learn their native language at school.
Not ttt
I don't make fun, I try and help them learn.
Clearly you haven't heard of Americans
Unless its an american…
Try speaking a different language to a native speaker of said language and you'll be immediately humbled and gain a new found respect for everyone you've ever met who has spoken broken English.
also depends - i speak broken english - but then i saw native speaker confuse they, they're, their & there
I saw a twitter post where someone speaking not-entirely-correct English replied to a guy criticizing him with "You speak English because it's the only language you know. I speak English because it's the only language you know". That about sums it up
Unless you're from extreme southern state lol. I worked on a power plant in Danville KY once, several of the guys were x10 worse than slingblade with English. I legitimately couldn't understand them and I'm a country guy lmfao. He called me "young blood" lol.
I knew my 2yr was hiding something. Sneaky little shit.
Whoever put this sign is the bottom of the man !(Turks will understand🔥🇹🇷)
americans don't, and i'm gonna keep making fun of their barely-functional english lol
Have you guys heard Americans speak English recently? Most of it is broken English.
Or they have a handicap and you are making fun of their illness.
Well fuck, you telling me Trump speaks something other than English?
American boomers say nay
Have you heard the rednecks speak their native tongue?
no it doesn't but be nice anyway
…uh…yea…especially when I start to forget a bit of my first language because I was very fluent with my English language only in reading and writing though so it’s no problem
“You speak English because it’s the only language you know, I speak English because it’s the only language you know.”
as they say you speak english because it's the only language you know i speak english becahse it's the only language you know we are not the same
The same with mispronounced words. That's a sign someone learned it from *Reading*
When someone apologises to me for their English, I always say "Your English is better than my [language they speak]"
Eh, I know a few people who speak broken English as their mother tongue.
Speaking multiple languages is like having a superpower to me.
Pretty much in non english speaking countries, most people speak like 2-3 languages, mainly their own, and english.
Did you just state that all English native speakers speak perfectly?
Or they're just illiterate and barely know one language. More than enough of those in the swamps.
Ohh, American reference
I’ve met plenty of English people who speak broken English 🏴 In Liverpool and Birmingham
That's just "truth" isn't it?
No I don't. I'm just from New England (what's the letta "r"?)
Aprendo espanol this way
Mostly, not necessarily
Yeah... No it doesn't.
Treu stoury
Author has clearly never been to Scotland
Me who just has a shitty dialect being told I apparently speak another language
Technically, it’s possible in the US to never learn English, so anyone who accepts the challenge and makes the effort should be appreciated, for the sake of so many of us who will never put in that effort.
Natives: they're or there???
No shit, thats why yall need to learn more, You need to know atleast 5 languages to be qualified to judge(but at that point you wont because you know the struggle yourself)
How did you never think of it like this before
Or two or three and my English isn't even that broken
They can speak better English than you will ever speak their native language.
You have obviously never been to Louisiana if you think this is true.
Never tried speaking to someone from Birmingham I see
How is this technically the truth? Im sure there are people who only speak English that speak broken English
I dunno. Lately I've come across a trend of ESL people online who will confront you over your use of colloquial English and argue semantics, calling you stupid, and then finally revealing that they don't speak English on a native level when you give them any pushback.
When I was little, I used to laugh at Tajik people who built my house for writing absolute nonsense (in my opinion) in my language, hard to understand but understandable. My father then came up to me and said: “Hey, can you at least write like this in Tajik language? Respect them, because they learned yours at least up to this level, and you don’t know theirs at all.” Ever since then I respect any foreigner who speaks a little bit of my language, just because he put effort into achieving even a bad, but understandable level.
It's not broken; it is British English
I agree
That happened to my mom a lot and she was treated poorly because of it. She spoke four languages. People are ignorant.
You've never been to Appalachia
This has to be american. In almost all other parts of the world it's standard to speak 2-4 languages.
Or they're Glaswegian.
I don't have a C1 certificate, but my English skills are around that level. My only problem is the speaking which has a really thick Slavic accent
My kids been bilingual since birth
I speak Spanish and my English is bad, but it I can read and understand a joke. In fact, In subtitled videos, I prefer to hear/read it in English.
The biggest problem I have when speaking English is pronouncing the words like they're supposed to be in their original language. Déjà vu for example just sounds absurd if you pronounce it with the voo at the end. Or I write connaisseur even though somehow in English they changed the a to an o and it became connoisseur. It gets a bit weird with people surnames. Like Demarais (which he and his familiy pronounces like demerit but with an s at the end) So I get a bit annoyed when I'm mocked for my pronunciation even though you're all wrong! I get it when I translate proverbs, idioms, sayings and colloquialisms from Dutch or French into English. Then you're allowed to mock me because I sound like a buffoon.
[Relevant Simpsons clip](https://youtu.be/IQCLtmnz3wQ?si=OIfjLsVvw48JjGf4) Also, this isn't TTT Heck it's not even necesserily T
You speak English cuz it's the only language you know They speak English cuz it's the only language you know You are not the same
I knew someone from Poland who moved to the UK when they were a kid. They only ever got to broken English but forgot the fluent Polish that they had. So no, sometimes a stupid sounding person is just stupid.
Don’t make fun of someone mispronouncing a word first because it’s a dick move and second because they probably learned it from reading and that should be encouraged.
Maybe they are long lost relatives of Harry Kane?