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?

  • LeapSecond@lemmy.zip
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    6 hours ago

    Pretty fluent I guess. Most of the media I consume are in English and I never have issues understanding things (at least for US and UK content). I also think in English about half of the time. The main problem is my accent, which is terrible and trips me up a lot when trying to speak. This is one of the parts you don’t train too much when most of your communication in English happens with other non-native speakers.

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      Haha, it also leads to odd quirks of English shining though. Although media is plural and “are” would be used, as you did, most would use it as a collective noin and say" media is". It’s one the rules to break as a native speaker.