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The link in the article about native speakers is interesting. 1. All "native" speakers are actually raised bilingual. and 2. George Soros was raised learning
by jccalhoun 8y ago
The link in the article about native speakers is interesting.
1. All "native" speakers are actually raised bilingual. and
2. George Soros was raised learning esperanto. I am surprised that there isn't some conspiracy about Esperanto
- chillacy 8y agoI've met native speakers, and some things surprised me: 1. Some still have a heavy accent. In fact it tends to be the accent of their parents. (all of us have an accent, it just happens that some of our accents are considered standard english) 2. They tend to be fluent but fluency is also a function of frequency of use, and some non-native speakers reach higher fluency by living with other esperanto speakers and using it daily 3. They all type using `x` notation, since they were typing Eo before Eo keyboards existed, so gxis instead of ĝis