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?
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?
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.
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.
Funny thing, I initially wrote “is” but changed it because it felt wrong. Somehow replying to a thread about English fluency makes you second guess everything :D
Haha, I was also wondering if I had typos somewhere as I posted.