• shneancy@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      people confuse those two a lot. especially non-native speakers who’s languages have one word for borrow and lend

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          16 hours ago

          maybe your knowledge of german corrupted you then? 😭 i see the .de in your instance name

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            3 hours ago

            I’m German but became fluent in English before school so I consider myself native. Anyway what I’m trying to say is I’m really good at being bad in two languages at the same time

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              2 hours ago

              that is so fair. i’m polish and learnt english the same way natives do, so i consider myself near native, and i also suck at both of my langauges