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Don't forget that English is not my first language and even if I'm quite fluid in it, there's things I still don't know!
I don't even know all the words and idioms in Spanish! It changes A LOT from region to region and so it happens with English, so it's difficult to catch up.Jun 19, 2023
I don't even know all the words and idioms in Spanish! It changes A LOT from region to region and so it happens with English, so it's difficult to catch up.Jun 19, 2023
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English is my native language, and I don't know all the words, idioms, phrases etc. Especially here in the States, English varies from region to region. Don't feel bad for knowing it as a second language. Be proud you are ahead of most English speakers for being bilingual 
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•English is my second language, but I'm more fluent in Spanish my 3rd languages, when o speak irl- but ya, I get you:3
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•English is literally my 4th language.
I only learned it frm watching the telly and from school. My parents were both trilingual speaking different languages to me from the start. Mother speak 1 to me, father speak another.
English is so indirect and native speakers of English are very vague and don't like to say things as they are. Just.... implications. Which makes it extremely difficult for me to understand it.
I only learned it frm watching the telly and from school. My parents were both trilingual speaking different languages to me from the start. Mother speak 1 to me, father speak another.
English is so indirect and native speakers of English are very vague and don't like to say things as they are. Just.... implications. Which makes it extremely difficult for me to understand it.
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•I'm a native English speaker, and it's the only language I know. Sometimes I don't fully understand other English speakers. Dialect can vary a lot even city to city. Some people are a boiling pot of multiple dialects, creating their own.
Some stuff can be TOATALLY different. Take the British word for a bundle of sticks. I'm not saying it. You get my point now.
Some stuff can be TOATALLY different. Take the British word for a bundle of sticks. I'm not saying it. You get my point now.
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•Same here, italian and English is my second language, I sometimes don't understand how some sentences come off sounding when I either directly translate them from my head or I just use sentences I've heard in English but they may have undertones I didn't catch 
so it could sound off.
so it could sound off.•
I can relate, it's not my native language either. But the more you practice it, the more you get the subtleties and the meanings behind abbreviations etc. Also, yes, English from England is different from USA, Canada and Australia and pretty much everywhere else that uses English on a daily basis. In French, we often say we speak "globish" because we learned "standard English" which is mostly from England, but then again, we are used to hearing English from USA series and movies. So it's mix of different accents and words.
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•Just saying it because sometimes it might seems as if I didn't quite get what you told me and it's probably because I didn't hahaha
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