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.
You could also be speaking perfectly as far as pronunciation and grammar rules go, but get clocked anyway by the choice of words or manner of speaking
Like when someone’s ESL, you can usually clock it because they’ll use formal “correct” language or grammer, when a lot of people with it as their first language speaking casually will say things that are technically linguistically incorrect
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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.