Current Events > I feel "dumb" and not-funny when speaking English. Mini-rant haha.

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BalanceLost
07/17/18 5:56:36 AM
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I have such a suberb grasp of my native language and my ability to make people laugh with witty jokes is one of my social strenghts. But I cant do that in English at the same extent since Im not fluent enough, but I guess I just gotta keep working at it.

I sometimes feel like Gloria in Modern Family

It is mainly just online and when abroad I speak English though.
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catboy0_0
07/17/18 5:58:55 AM
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you speak english better than I
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BalanceLost
07/17/18 11:30:16 AM
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catboy0_0 posted...
you speak english better than I


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eston
07/17/18 11:36:46 AM
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If you binge watch every season of the Simpsons it should give you a solid grasp of like 90% of our pop culture
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eggcorn
07/17/18 4:35:08 PM
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You speak English better than I speak any secondary language.
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LedZeppelin
07/17/18 4:36:12 PM
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VoightKent posted...
catboy0_0 posted...
you speak english better than I

It's "me" you utter pretent

you never know there could be an implied do at the end of the sentence
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DarkTransient
07/17/18 4:55:12 PM
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Yeah, that tends to be a thing that happens with second languages, unless you learn them really young.
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Parappa09
07/17/18 4:58:36 PM
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i'm not funny in my native language, i know that feeling
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catboy0_0
07/17/18 5:43:47 PM
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LedZeppelin posted...
VoightKent posted...
catboy0_0 posted...
you speak english better than I

It's "me" you utter pretent

you never know there could be an implied do at the end of the sentence

it's I, because I am not a direct object
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ASithLord7
07/17/18 7:31:12 PM
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Dude if I didn't know otherwise I'd just assume you were a native speaker lol.

Most Europeans are waaaay too modest about their English abilities. Last time I was in Germany the man who owned the place I was staying was like "oh sorry, I only speak very little English" then proceeded to have an entire conversation with me in it :P
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