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Even if it’s not perfect, don’t apologize for your foreign language skills. You are still better off than a native speaker by knowing at least one additional la
by tamimio 3y ago
Even if it’s not perfect, don’t apologize for your foreign language skills. You are still better off than a native speaker by knowing at least one additional language. And if they happen to know another language that wasn’t learned from a young age, they will understand. I’ve noticed that people usually appreciate it, and you start to see happy smiles when you speak their language, even if it’s not perfect—except English, some even get hostile if you didn’t have the local accent, maybe a Hollywood effect that the evil guy always speaks with accent.
- DontchaKnowit 3y agoIve never heard anyone get hostile but Ive heard a loooot of innocent, ignorant, midwesterners ask very silly and possibly insulting questions to foreigners when they first hear the accent.
- someguydave 3y agoCasually insulting midwesterners as a group is of course perfectly fine - it is moral and good actually.
- DontchaKnowit 3y agoare you insinuating that I am casually insulting midwesterners? If so, you misunderstand me
- MrJohz 3y ago> You are still better off than a native speaker by knowing at least one additional language. This will depend a lot on the context in which you're speaking. I (English native) work mainly with Germans in German. But their English is often at least as good as my German. And a number of them know another language as well (or multiple other languages). So in that context, I am not better than a native speaker for knowing other languages.