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Languages are weird (lemmy.world)
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[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 157 points 10 months ago

I'll never forget one of my coworkers asking me what my first language was because, "I speak English as a second language I know what it sounds like, so what's your first language?"

My first language is English, I just speak it really poorly

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 36 points 10 months ago

Could also be that they mistook your regional accent for the accent one has when learning it as a secondary language.

[-] ichmagrum@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

Does that really make it better?

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 15 points 10 months ago

Well, you did forget the period on your sentence... But, I won't tell the teacher!

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