• shneancy@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    people confuse those two a lot. especially non-native speakers who’s languages have one word for borrow and lend

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        1 day ago

        maybe your knowledge of german corrupted you then? 😭 i see the .de in your instance name

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          13 hours ago

          I’m German but became fluent in English before school so I consider myself native. Anyway what I’m trying to say is I’m really good at being bad in two languages at the same time

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            12 hours ago

            that is so fair. i’m polish and learnt english the same way natives do, so i consider myself near native, and i also suck at both of my langauges