In which Pez wastes space on your friends list!

[pez]

I was just thinking how many people around here don't actually speak English as their first language. On my flist, I have Chinese (Mainland/HK, and I don't know if Taiwanese and Singaporeans like to call themselves Chinese), Filipino, Brazilian, Portugese, French, German, Norwegian, Finns (is that the right word?), Argentinian, Vietnamese, Indonesian... and others I can't think of right now because I lost some brains through my nose this morning. XD

I know we all mostly write in English because that's the language most understands around here. My question is, how come everyone's English is so good? Is it because you live/lived overseas? You learned it in school and keep practising online? You love reading English books?

Don't mind me, I'm just curious. XD Here, watch Roy dance.

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[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I tend to just hit tab+enter very quickly after I've typed something! XD And then I spot the mistakes and edit the post...

English and me never really clicked until about 3 years after I moved here. I think it was reading a lot that did the change, as well. I don't understand why you say you're more confident speaking in English than German, though... it doesn't seem logical...?

You have no idea how many problems I get with vocab. giving_ground'd been staying with me for a while and I kept asking her all these questions when I was writing fic. Finding the right word for what I want to say is very difficult sometims x_x

Your way is better, though, compared with how I just blab things out and then go "sdfafhsfsa" at myself afterwards!