I am a non-native English speaker. My English is far from perfect, both with regards to grammar, style and pronunciation. However, having lived outside of Italy

I am a non-native English speaker. My English is far from perfect, both with regards to grammar, style and pronunciation. However, having lived outside of Italy for about 6 years now I must disagree with the premise of this blog post. I feel more fluent expressing myself in English than Italian. Especially but not limited to the discussion of technical topics. I learned many words and phrases that I have to routinely translate back to my mother tongue because ironically my vocabulary and phrasal verbs are not up-to-date with my English counterpart. My vocabulary seem to have developed primarily due to the fact I have been constantly exposed to the culture and living in an English speaking country. Aside from the understandable phonetic and pronunciation difficulties encountered by antirez, this is entirely debatable and down to personal experience. Living abroad has tremendously helped in that regard