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Italian here. Great English language skills, lived in SF for ~10 years until 2020. A great trick is to keep some of your accent, so people would know for sure
by simonebrunozzi 4y ago
Italian here. Great English language skills, lived in SF for ~10 years until 2020.
A great trick is to keep some of your accent, so people would know for sure you're a foreigner, but also surprise them with words that only the most literate people would know.
How to do it? Easier if your native language is Italian and you studied Latin at school. There's hundreds of words like that that naturally come to you as the ones you would use if you had to say the same thing in your native Italian language.
- raverbashing 4y agoI agree. I'd say I have met a lot of native speakers that, while obviously native, have poor vocabulary skills (and also make some grammar mistakes - but not the ones the ESL students usually make) It's not surprising to have people that have trouble with words like rotund, pulmonary, saturnine, among others. (Or the usual mistakes like "should of", "it's" when they mean "its", etc)
- solveit 4y ago> Or the usual mistakes like "should of", "it's" when they mean "its", etc Incidentally, these (or at least the first) are the mistakes that only native speakers and very fluent people make.
- simonebrunozzi 4y ago"it's" instead of "its", seen it so many times (in writing, of course, usually in an email).
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