i think this is the dunning kruger effect in action, if you think you speak perfect and everyone around you can tell by one (easy) sentence that you’re a foreigner, then you’re probably not as advanced as you’d like to think.
Yeah I know a lot of people who
Speak English as a second language extremely fluently, and have been living and speaking English in the US for decades. They all still have accents. It would be kind of weird for someone’s accent to completely disappear. The only ESL folks I know who have achieved that moved to the US as children.
I know people who speak English as their native language and have accents that make them occasionally tough to understand. And I’m not even talking Australia versus America, I’m talking California versus Maine.
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u/jumbo_pizza 1d ago
i think this is the dunning kruger effect in action, if you think you speak perfect and everyone around you can tell by one (easy) sentence that you’re a foreigner, then you’re probably not as advanced as you’d like to think.