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For those who's country's national language is NOT English, how fluent is your English compared to your country's language? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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I was just wondering about all the Europeans (excluding UK)... like do y'all understand... say, an American movie or TV as well as those in your national language?

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[–] 4 points 9 months ago

There are certain sayings, phrases or slang that I may not be intimately familiar with.

This says nothing about your fluency. There are tonnes of English slang that Americans are unfamiliar with, and vice versa.
Hell, there's a lot of Singaporean English that doesn't exist in the minds of Brits and Americans, but Singaporeans are still fluent in English, it's just different from what people consider "true" English.

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