I can eavesdrop better than just about any other skill.

You would have been SUCH a successful spy 40 years ago when top secret stuff was still mainly via face to face conversations 😁

I get this with my native language which country I still live in, Sweden, because I'm stuck at home the vast majority of the time due to illness and basically only read and watch things in English. So when I do get out I often forget Swedish words and have generally speak badly, it's kinda funny.

How did you learn it? I'm actually curious because that would probably explain why.

Japanese has a cheat code though. If you try to say English words with a Japanese accent they can mostly understand you. Words like hamburger and strawberry are a good example.

I think English is very context driven where I find other languages much more specific and precise. The word “cool” for instance can probably have a dozen different meanings depending on context so perversely IMO simple English can be sorted out by feel more easily where other languages are less tolerant of that.

Tonal languages are probably harder to make sense.

When you say "Ma" in Mandarin you could mean 4 different things.

So if I was trying to say "I like my horse" or "I like my mother" you'd say "I like my ma". Unless you had context you wouldn't know what I was trying to say if I didn't use the correct tone.

English tones give extra information.

"I LIKE my horse" or "I like MY horse".

One you could like your horse, other you might really LIKE your horse.

"I go store" vs "I am going to go to the store now". The meaning isn't really lost.

English is hard because speaking it well is complex. There are dozens of way to say "walked"

Did the man stroll down the street? Strut, marched, trudged, shuffled, stumbled, hobbled, or etc.

Someone that doesn't know English well would understand that the man hobbling down the street means that the man went down the street. But hobbling has the idea that the man is injured. If they were trying to describe the man limping down the road they would be thrown off thinking about how they could describe it as hobbled. "The man walked with a limp down the street" or "The man limped as he walked down the street"

Then there's things like "The man hobbled down Bourbon Street" now you get the idea that he is hobbling because of being intoxicated rather than injured.

But getting the general idea is pretty simple. "Man go road"

There’s a brewery near me that gets so loud that my ears are ringing when I leave. And they don’t play background music. I don’t go there anymore

This is bad, but in his defence it seems like he was obligated to go as part of the teams duties, as opposed to choosing this. I know he has an option to speak out and refuse, especially with his profile, but he's always been shy and quiet. All he wants to do is play football.