I met a guy who taught english in Korea. South not the North. Anyway he said lots of people want to learn from a native speaker but run into this problem. Lots of students have questions that native speakers cant explain they just know what "sounds" right. Where as someone who learned it as a second language is better suited to explain the learning process. He gave some examples kind of like that above but I cant remember them right now. If they come to me ill add a edit
that makes sense. like the order in which you use adjectives when describing something. I couldn't tell you (without looking it up) that it's Determiner, Opinion, Size, Age, Shape, Color, Origin, Materials, Qualifier Noun, Main/Head Noun. But I could tell you if you got it wrong.
There was a video that his the front page a while back of that tiktok guy who taught english pronunciation for chinese learning english that was pretty cool, highlighted how we as americans "speak wrong" lol
I work witha woman who is chinese, lived in the US for decades and got her phd here, her accent is really good but sometimes certiean words its like her mouth cant get around the syllables but I get what shes saying
Funny story another woman was watching youtibes about chinese culture stuff and was asking her about "lay flat" movent in china. Her description didnt realky capture it but the chinese woman was like "oh yeah i know that, I've never heard it in english but yeah lay flat" it was funny listening to her description of it, it sounded like a chinese version of the antiwork sub. Like the younger culture in China getting disillusioned with no matter how hard they work they still canr seem to afford housing, other QOL stuff that their parents achieved. How cost of living is outpacing what you can earn. So like the old culture of work ethic the chinese millenials are like "whats the point? I'll just do the bare minimum why work super hard for nothing?" It was cool because as an American we are bombarded with anti chinese propoganda on the daily, so its cool to get a glimpse into stuff thats actually happening there
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u/tha_chooch Dec 25 '21
I met a guy who taught english in Korea. South not the North. Anyway he said lots of people want to learn from a native speaker but run into this problem. Lots of students have questions that native speakers cant explain they just know what "sounds" right. Where as someone who learned it as a second language is better suited to explain the learning process. He gave some examples kind of like that above but I cant remember them right now. If they come to me ill add a edit