> Foreign learners shouldn't worry about proper English the way native speakers do. Why not? Positive action? As a foreign learner, I don't want to be judged b

> Foreign learners shouldn't worry about proper English the way native speakers do. Why not? Positive action? As a foreign learner, I don't want to be judged by lower standards. That would label me as "the French man"[1]. That would be a form of exclusion. That would lose me credibility. Moreover, I am not judged by lower standards. In most contexts, people don't even know that I'm not native. They will judge me by natives' standards like I do you. The catch is, I am not a native speaker. So, the only way to catch up is to worry more than native speakers. So I should. So I do. [1] I once was told that unlike the Merovingian, Lambert seldom have a French accent, if at all. That he was upset when he was asked to fake it.