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  • thevoidzero@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    I learned English reading so many books that I just pronounced how it’s spelled in my head. Combine that with general non-social tendencies I didn’t really heard or had to say a lot of those words.

    I had to spell out words to people because of that. Then I came to US, and now I can’t even spell the words because the alphabets are pronounced differently lol.

    • I immigrated to the US at like 8 years old, I speak on a native level, in contrast, my older brother stuggles like a lot, I noticed an accent. I asked my classmated if I have an accent, and they don’t seem to notice any foreign accents.

      Even then, there are still weird words that feels very weird to me. Like wtf is colonel = kernel , lmfao