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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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[–] 1 point 9 months ago

Pretty much equivalent, since I was in an English speaking country early enough.

Yes, I watch and read in original language. However you also need some cultural knowledge to get everything. While that seems obvious, the devil is in the details indeed.

I always have a lot of fun with words that split up into multiple in the other language. Recently I stumbled over kind(ness) which you'd split up in German: to act kind (freundlich) and to be kind (gütig) would be different words.

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