midnight-spectrum-again:randomslasher:runthatbymeonemoretime:richardalexanderrr:basing a foreign spe
midnight-spectrum-again:randomslasher:runthatbymeonemoretime:richardalexanderrr:basing a foreign speaker’s intelligence on how fluent they are in a foreign language is so ignorantAs my dad always says, “Anyone who speaks with an accent knows one more language than you.”I worked in a call center and it always broke my heart when people on the phone would apologize for having a thick accent (or any accent at all). I’d always say “Listen, first of all you’re doing awesome, and secondly you know way more English than I know of any other language.” Like, why on earth would we think someone who can’t speak perfect English be unintelligent? They’re learning English. English is an absolute beast of a language and props to anyone learning it as a second language. If English wasn’t my first language I would fucking hate it -- source link
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