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?

  • cally [he/they]@pawb.social
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    5 hours ago

    Like nearly as fluent except when I get lazy and stop thinking of “fancy” words to write. English has a lot of fancy words: vocabulary synonymous to other elements of the lexicon. I don’t know those types of words in Portuguese lol.

    I can understand movies fine but prefer captions regardless of the language being spoken unless I am in a very quiet room.

    I’m brazilian and my family thinks I am really smart for knowing another language but really I just watched YouTube when i was a kid so uh yeah I’m not sure how fluent I actually am since I’ve only met other second language speakers.