• Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 months ago

    I’ll never forget one of my coworkers asking me what my first language was because, “I speak English as a second language I know what it sounds like, so what’s your first language?”

    My first language is English, I just speak it really poorly

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      10 months ago

      Could also be that they mistook your regional accent for the accent one has when learning it as a secondary language.