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[quote=JABAROOTOO              ,28887]Hi Pinetree,I'm not entirely sure what you are getting at here with this thresd but can I make a comment as 'a native English speaker' Being a mono-lingual with English as my native tongues has some advantages and disadvantages.Being a 'native English speaker' simply means that you were born in a county where English is the formal language of education and also spoken in the home. Many 'native English speakers' unfortunatly do not have a good command of either the written or spoken language but they will still be given preference to 'non- native speakers' in the 'policy based environment'.Chinese language schools more often that not are biased in this manner.  And there is a serious debate about whose accent is correct or not.  English did originate in England which has many different dialects/accents and 'the Queens English' should be considered the most correct spoken English but it is not always so.I am thankful that I have been exposed to both the British and the American accents and differences in vocabulary thru television etc. and am often able to acurately tell where an English speaker is from simply by listening to a few key phonetic sounds.  But in saying this there are so many variations in the Englsih language today that it is getting harder to tell and the language is evolving all the time. A disadvantage of many English speakers is the fact that we often only speak ONE language well when people from all around the world speak Englsih as a second or even third language. My goal is to become reasonably fluent in Mandarin.  Not sure how long this will take but I will at least try.[/quote]

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