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How many of you are non-native English speakers? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by myszka@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Everyone seems so good at English so I wondered how many people learned it to such proficiency and how many are just natives

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[–] hamid@crazypeople.online 5 points 2 days ago

My first and mother tongue is Farsi but I haven't spoken it out loud in any sustained fashion in actual decades at this point and I learned English when I was very young so I guess at this point while English might not be my "native" language, it is my primary. I noticed some time ago I think in English and when I go to speak Farsi I stammer, it is kind of a bummer but I'm more focused on Spanish than learning how to speak a language I am not around.