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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[โ€“] 8 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

I'm German. Back in my day, we had 9 years of English classes in school and from what I've heard it's even more now. I was lucky to have a teacher who had spent a couple of years in the UK so he had much less of a German accent than most other teachers at our school and was also able to give us a lot of insight into how people actually speak, compared to the rather formal and stilted examples in our textbooks.

Between social media, movies, shows and a job in software engineering, I would say that on most days I read and listen to more English than German.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 1 point 1 year ago

    So many people from Germany here on Lemmy! I wonder why that is. Maybe free software movement is a bit more popular there? There seem to be so many good German open-source projects!

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