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How many of you are non-native English speakers? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by myszka@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] wiase@discuss.online 2 points 11 months ago

My mom is from Ingushetia (in USSR times counted as part of Chechnya, now a Russian republic). My dad is German.

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