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

  • dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    edit-2
    10 hours ago

    I’m German. Back in my day, we had 9 years of English classes in school and from what I’ve heard it’s even more now. I was lucky to have a teacher who had spent a couple of years in the UK so he had much less of a German accent than most other teachers at our school and was also able to give us a lot of insight into how people actually speak, compared to the rather formal and stilted examples in our textbooks.

    Between social media, movies, shows and a job in software engineering, I would say that on most days I read and listen to more English than German.