>>17300307>Not I nor any ESL I know picked up English cause they really were interested in learning it, just that they consumed a lot of shit on the internet until they inevitably did.yeah honestly i almost envy that about modern esls because it's kinda like they get two languages for free, their native one and the internet-mandated one, here if you're not an immigrant or born into a family that speaks another language you have to really go out of your way to learn another language, most people "learn" another one in school but you know how that goes
>This next generation is going to be even worse. They already get an IPad shoved down their throats the second they can hold one.right, i'm curious how badly that's going to fuck up the next generation, i remember i was at the airport recently and there was a little kid in a stroller with an iphone next to me scrolling through random videos and spending no more than 3 seconds max watching before skipping to the next, his mom took away the phone, he starts to cry, and then of course 10 seconds later his mom gives him back the phone he immediately stops crying and goes back to happily scrolling but yeah trite topic, iphones are 15 years old and youtube's even older than that, everyone's known about technology and social media deteriorating attention spans and shit forever but i wonder when anythings actually gonna be done about it, hopefully when and not if
>Maybe communicating with it well and actually being good at it are two different thingsyeah "being good with a language" doesnt concretely describe anything, like you said it depends on each individual's definition of "good", it's much more precise to break it down into specific constituent skills but i think by far the most useful applications of linguistic competency are communication and comprehension, both of which you can do as well or better than native speakers so that's more than enough for me to call you good at english
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