myszka@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 12 hours agoHow many of you are non-native English speakers?message-squaremessage-square48linkfedilinkarrow-up166arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up163arrow-down1message-squareHow many of you are non-native English speakers?myszka@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 12 hours agomessage-square48linkfedilinkfile-text
Everyone seems so good at English so I wondered how many people learned it to such proficiency and how many are just natives
minus-squareAdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-23 hours agoAs a native English speaker I certainly won’t process the words of a lot of songs without a conscious effort Lyrics are so often indecipherable as well. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jGLYJQJh9c8 One that I remember is that I had heard the song “believer” a number of times before learning its name, I always thought they were saying “pick me up and pick me up and leave me, and leave me”. I don’t think I even tried to decypher the rest lol
As a native English speaker I certainly won’t process the words of a lot of songs without a conscious effort
Lyrics are so often indecipherable as well. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jGLYJQJh9c8
One that I remember is that I had heard the song “believer” a number of times before learning its name, I always thought they were saying “pick me up and pick me up and leave me, and leave me”. I don’t think I even tried to decypher the rest lol