myszka@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 5 days agoHow many of you are non-native English speakers?message-squaremessage-square95fedilinkarrow-up1107arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1102arrow-down1message-squareHow many of you are non-native English speakers?myszka@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 5 days agomessage-square95fedilinkfile-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-up5·edit-24 days 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