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I was just wondering about all the Europeans (excluding UK)... like do y'all understand... say, an American movie or TV as well as those in your national language?

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[โ€“] GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not european but I'm pretty fluent. (My spelling and grammar have declined a lot since I've not actively studied the language though). And I've found that it's easier for me to think in english about certain topics and to organize my thoughts in general, so do it often. My mind is much more chaotic in my native language, and english allows me a sort of window into other ways of structuring and processing information (idk if that makes sense to anyone else.)

Also I've consumed so much english language media through out my life that I'm familiar with a lot of US and UK colloquialisms, and politically and culturally the US has a lot of relation to and influnce in my country so I'd say 90โ„… of the time I undersand, unless it's some crazy new gen alpha shit XD.