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thewimsey t1_j4j0bk4 wrote

Reply to comment by Apprehensive-Fix1202 in What it means to “know” a language by thenousman

>I find there are even few people who can speak their own mother tongue fluently

Then you don't know what "fluently" means.

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SparklesMcSpeedstar t1_j4kfsl2 wrote

Depends on your definition of fluent. My mother tongue, Indonesian, is not spoken fluently by most Indonesians because most would rather speak in their own regional dialect e.g Javanese Sundanese etc. and pepper their speech with it. Sure most people understand it but few can write or speak it at a grammatically accurate level, even fewer at an academic level

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