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I am a non-native speaker living in Australia, I have been here for 12 years now; my experience is that this eventually goes away. Until about 5 years ago I was
by mastazi 3y ago
I am a non-native speaker living in Australia, I have been here for 12 years now; my experience is that this eventually goes away. Until about 5 years ago I was experiencing the same as what you are describing but now it no longer happens. I suspect that the timing depends on one's age, for example I moved here in my 30's and my progress was much slower than my daughter who moved here very young. Another factor is the relationship between your native language and your acquired one, for example I have observed that people whose native tongue is an Indo-European language don't have as much of a hard time switching to English compared to people from other linguistic backgrounds.