I’m from Vietnam. I’ve been in the UK for 10 years now. When I met my English husband 13 years ago at 19 I knew 0 English. We communicated using machine translation. So that’s when I started learning English. Fast forward to present day after immersion, living in an English speaking country, formal study, etc. and I’d say my writing and listening (understanding) are good, but my speaking and reading are still bad. I kind of gave up on trying to become fluent at this point.
Some people are barely fluent in their native language
are you talking about a disability or are you making an extremely ill informed statement on linguistics
They are stating an observation.
they’re observing that the sky is green and im asking if anyone gave them strange mushrooms. its literally impossible to be not fluent in your native language without having some sort of condition that prevents you from speaking
the kind of statement that the above poster is making is the same exact sentiment (literally zero difference) as saying black people dont speak english because they say yall or whatever. but i bet they just have hillbillies in mind. this brand of linguistic prescriptivism is violence and im having zero fucking tolerance for that shit. linguistic prescriptivism is nerd fascism and you fuckers dont even get it you’re so smug about being right.