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> People coming from Western countries tend to be more demanding about discussion friendliness sometimes > People I'm a bit confused, are you talking about pe
by silicon2401 5y ago
> People coming from Western countries tend to be more demanding about discussion friendliness sometimes
> People
I'm a bit confused, are you talking about people and countries or not? In your original comment you explicitly said "people"
and "countries"
- bee_rider 5y agoThey are talking about the way people from these countries typically phrase things as a result of their native language, rather than trying to characterize the actual personalities of the people from these countries. We just add more friendly sounding little filler phrases in our speech and often phrase instructions/commands as requests in English. This doesn't make us fundamentally nicer or more reasonable, it is just a social convention.
- izietto 5y agoThank you for explaining that at my place :) I wasn't even referring to "Western" countries, I mean I come from Italy, which actually is a Western country, and when I read native English speakers I notice many differences that I'll never be able to reproduce
- silicon2401 5y agoI'm just curious; why did you specifically say western countries, if you didn't mean western countries? Or say people if you didn't mean people?
- izietto 5y agoBecause I'm not a good English speaker, I'm sorry about that
- silicon2401 5y agoYou're a great English speaker, which is why it was just confusing since you're clearly able to articulate when you _don't_ mean people and countries.
- izietto 5y agoWell, I appreciate that I can write decently :D but it requires me a lot of effort, my English skills are a source of big troubles at interviews with other countries. Sometimes I just get confused translating and I say something for something else
- silicon2401 5y agoIn fairness to your point, I guess I technically can't comment on your speaking, but your writing is definitely great. I wouldn't have guessed you're not a native speaker. Do you practice speech often? I'm a language learning fan but not a huge fan of talking in any language, so my speech always lags behind my writing in languages I study.
- izietto 5y agoI never practice speech, that's something I should do, but my problem is that I like too much the English language spoken by an Italian person, and also I don't like the English pronounce. That's a strong obstacle to any improvement on English language sounds. I love written English, that's why I can write it, but I just don't like how it sounds, that's why I can't speak it.