TheNEET
mentally crippled by sleepoverless teen years
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how do you feel about foreigners speaking your language?
there aren't that many people who learn to speak Polish (well, there are immigrant workers in factories, but I don't work, so I don't interact with them), so my first (subconscious) reaction when hearing someone make many mistakes or speak with an accent is to think less of him, as if he were retarded or a child (my brain probably assumes that's the case, because these are the only situations when you'd hear a native speaker speak broken Polish)
I think it might be different in the case of English, because it's the de facto global lingua franca, so you're surrounded (even if not directly, through TV shows, internet etc. ) by non-native speakers who obviously have accents and often speak more or less broken English (one extreme case is Slavoj Zizek who is smart and his English seems superb in terms of grammar and vocabulary, but he's got Slavic-boomer-tier accent)
do you automatically assume someone is less intelligent if he speaks with an accent or are you used to it and it doesn't bother you?
there aren't that many people who learn to speak Polish (well, there are immigrant workers in factories, but I don't work, so I don't interact with them), so my first (subconscious) reaction when hearing someone make many mistakes or speak with an accent is to think less of him, as if he were retarded or a child (my brain probably assumes that's the case, because these are the only situations when you'd hear a native speaker speak broken Polish)
I think it might be different in the case of English, because it's the de facto global lingua franca, so you're surrounded (even if not directly, through TV shows, internet etc. ) by non-native speakers who obviously have accents and often speak more or less broken English (one extreme case is Slavoj Zizek who is smart and his English seems superb in terms of grammar and vocabulary, but he's got Slavic-boomer-tier accent)
do you automatically assume someone is less intelligent if he speaks with an accent or are you used to it and it doesn't bother you?