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Originally Posted by lizaj
I bet your German and Greek is a lot better than mine  . |
Haha, I bet that too
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Originally Posted by lizaj
I always feel so cheeky having to question someone's English when I have ...like 2 words of their language!  . |
You didn't question my English, it was my problem, that I didn't express myself clearly enough
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But what irritates me some times (this doesn't have to do with you) is that many English native speakers here in forum (especially Americans) take it for granted that many non native speakers speak (or better to say write) English fluently. Have you ever asked yourselves how it comes that some of us non-native speakers are so fluent in English? Me for example have never in my life spent more than one week (per country) in English speaking countries (two times 5 days in England and the last time was 18 years ago, one week in the USA 17 years ago and one week in Canada 3 years ago). Somehow English native speakers are not always aware of the fact that English is a FOREIGN LANGUAGE to non-native speakers. But as I said Lizaj, this doesn't have to do with you personally, it is a general conclusion.