Everyone seems so good at English so I wondered how many people learned it to such proficiency and how many are just natives

  • glorkon@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I always cringe when I see native speakers confuse “it’s” and “its”, “their”, “they’re” and “there” and all the other subtleties of their language. But then again, I’m a pedantic German and maybe Americans are so anti-education already that they’re cool with that.

    • myszka@lemmy.mlOP
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      2 days ago

      Well native speakers learn the pronunciation first, so it’s harder for them to distinguish between different forms of the same sound combination