My wife started learning English at 14. At that point, she already spoke and write two other languages. She has a slight accent (rolls her R’s a bit) but is more fluent than most native speakers-- doing advanced degrees at top-tier UK universities forces you to write and speak well. I ask her to edit my writing when it’s something important. Her father, who was a well-off businessman with no formal education beyond secondary school, learned English by watching action movies. He was far more fluent than Melanoma.
I’ll just throw in the name of two other people for whom English was a second language: Joseph Conrad and Vladimir Nabokov.
Now I don’t expect some second-rate Slovene fashion model to be as brilliant as those two, but she’s either a particularly slow learner at language acquisition, or never made the effort. Possibly both.
And she married a rapist of children, a liar, a fraudster and a piece of shit. She knew what she was signing up for.
My wife started learning English at 14. At that point, she already spoke and write two other languages. She has a slight accent (rolls her R’s a bit) but is more fluent than most native speakers-- doing advanced degrees at top-tier UK universities forces you to write and speak well. I ask her to edit my writing when it’s something important. Her father, who was a well-off businessman with no formal education beyond secondary school, learned English by watching action movies. He was far more fluent than Melanoma.
I’ll just throw in the name of two other people for whom English was a second language: Joseph Conrad and Vladimir Nabokov.
Now I don’t expect some second-rate Slovene fashion model to be as brilliant as those two, but she’s either a particularly slow learner at language acquisition, or never made the effort. Possibly both.
And she married a rapist of children, a liar, a fraudster and a piece of shit. She knew what she was signing up for.