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Because I’m evil and I like to drag people into the darkest bowels of AFF?

Even paid jobs try to squeeze unpaid work out of ya.

I’m a native speaker of American English, with fluency in British English, and the remnants of the French I once spoke (although I’m crushing it in Duolingo). I read a smattering of Latin, and can muddle my way through reading basic things in Spanish, Italian, and German. Then again, I’m old enough to remember when a foreign language was taught as early as elementary school, along with music. (Never show me one of those plastic recorders—I still have flashbacks.)

*le sigh* I speak English as a second language, but I’ve studied… now… four other foreign languages. I can’t speak any of them, really, to any extent, but I have retained enough that I can read simple instructions in the other Scandinavian languages (except for Finnish, obviously And no offence, but Faroese is just gibberish) and I can recognise when people are speaking French or German, and related languages. And I still pretend to retain some of my ability to understand a bit of written Japanese At least I am smashing my Duolingo course in Japanese, and I do have a BA degree in that, so I feel I must pretend that I still know a bit I also tried to study Spanish, but failed miserably, because I kept mixing it up with my French, so I gave up and took German instead So, that’s native language, fluent in English, and studied four more, plus a bit of Spanish The joys of a tiny country school system.

Though I’m native born & raised American English speaker, I’ve joked that it’s a “second language” compared to the main coding language I program in. And while I did take some Japanese courses in high school, I didn’t really learn much/enough to do anything more than pick a little bit out here/there whenever I watch anime. So, while I’m not one, I have lots of respect for bilinguals (or more).

Did not know that @manta2g was an ESL speaker like myself

You’re doing a good job.

Typos happen with me, just a fact of my existence. English is my second language, I think I amble fairly well in it.

*grins* You get fast-tracked to becoming staff.