>>9786261Not even that. Pronunciation is only a problem for the speaker, English listeners are so accustomed to retarded grammar and enunciation that we can always get an idea of what foreigners are trying to say.
The real issues are twofold:
>ESL among friends>Lack of knowledge about idiomsIf you speak Chinese with your friends and then switch to English when an American joins the group, for example, then you're not doing a good job of assimilating. More immigrant parents need to speak English in the home casually and put less stress on forcing their kids to speak native languages with other immigrants.
And if you don't know figures of speech which are arguably English's real strength then you'll never understand literature, find subtext in conversations and will end up looking like a fucking retard no matter your actual intelligence. The amount of times I was at uni and had to tell my Vietnamese friend (who spoke perfect English btw) about simple idioms was absurd.
