have you ever met anyone who spoke english better than their other language, even if living in a non English speaking country?
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english is my mother tongue but i’ve been told i speak portuguese better (my dad’s second language as he lived by brazil)
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it worked out okay for him in the end since he got married and had children (and grandchildren) and he also got his citizenship back after a couple of decades of trying; but remained in mexico until his death a few years later.
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I mean he's been living a lot longer in the US now than his ~ 20 years in Austria
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Maybe slightly related
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This is indeed common in countries that have been "westernized", in many cases people learn in English since very small age in school because people thought/think knowing English means better career prospects and prefer admitting people to schools that do all English. But in many cases they don't actually have native English speaking people to teach, so they just end up learning their own version of English, written English will be good, not spoken. And for their native language they'll know oral language but will be worse at written one. And people that studied in non-english schools will at least know their language better in written form, but depending on their career path (for example all higher level education in science is English) it might change.
And in many cases they have a native language that's not taught at school at all, and considering the past literacy rate, most of their parents don't know how to write in their own language at all. So they'll have to learn the most common language of the country and English (2nd and 3rd language), either type of school they goto, they'll never understand written form of their native language.
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I dated someone from Mauritius. French is the primary language there. It took months for me to pick up on her accent because her USA English was so good.
