That YouTube person who learns languages and surprises native speakers discovered this when he had Chinese teachers rate him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k

That YouTube person who learns languages and surprises native speakers discovered this when he had Chinese teachers rate him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kxfTGbSfqA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kxfTGbSfqA It turns out there are a lot of poems, stories, etc a native speaker would learn in school and apply to their speech that a foreign learner might not even know about. One of the teachers compared this to learning Shakespeare, but I don't think it's nearly as involved in day-to-day speech the way it seems to be for native speakers of Chinese languages. I certainly don't know anything about Shakespeare other than what I picked up from Star Trek even though I'm sure I use things that came from his works all the time without knowing.