Comment on If you speak a second language better than your native language, would you describe your second language skill as "native" or "fluent"?

olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

It depends on whether you treat the answer as “like a native” or “I am a native”. The word native is etymologically rooted in “born into it”.

To sum up: You can speak a second language better than a native and have a proficiency of a native speaker without being a native speaker of the language.

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