Message from @Muten
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so you did esl?
I'm assuming you're not from an english speaking coutry
I had a luxury of having an english professor as a family friend
And I had access to cartoon network which helped me grasp it much faster
I grew up in soviet Lithuania
Not exactly an english speaking place
I'm not surprised you had terrible teacher and no problem if you were in esl
I grew up in Snowy Sweden
Imagine my shark
"swedishmafia" grew up in sweden
Oof
That professor expained idioms, jokes and just plain logic of the language to me
That's the best thing you can do to a learner
I get idioms mixed up all the time
rather embarrassing at times
one time I said "stand tall on your own 2 shoulders"
Once you get a grasp of slang, innuendos, jokes and idioms, you are on a pretty good language level
or something like that
You can actually think in it at that stage
lol, contortionist idiom
I do it im my mother tongue too
And sometimes a word from one language cockblocks another
English is my only language and i fuck it up a lot
I didn't learn my "native" tongue to any proficiency before I was shipped off to AU
Just brains being what it is - imperfect
where is everyone from?
I'm from Wales
gayland
even worse
I can't imagine how you could not be proficient in your native tongue
Not trying to be an ass, just have no such experience and it just sounds so alien to me
I had a friend who was shit at all 4 of her languages though
well I was barely school age when I moved to an english speaking country and never had the need to learn any other language
She spoke Lithuanian, Russian, Romanian and German, but none of those well in spoken form and even worse when it came to writing
It could be she had some undiagnosed learning condition though
oof
poor gal
She got just fine through life though
Married a rich turk with lithuanian roots eventually
gold nigger
ahh yes