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#and I KNOW what everyone considers intermediate in this country and I'm waaay above that
friendofthecrows · 2 years
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I have a job interview today, everyone who believes in that stuff send me luck ok? (灬º‿º灬)♡
#i am VERY fluent in writing but speaking is a different matter so I'm a bit worried#i actually just changed my fluency level on my application for French bc you know I'm fluent in French#but then my mom asked me to describe something to her in French and I blanked#but then she asked me to describe THE SAME THING in English and I STILL COULDN'T#so anyways my French is sitting at intermediate now in my resume bc they had no between intermediate and fluent#and I KNOW what everyone considers intermediate in this country and I'm waaay above that#but anyways the downsides of being mostly raised by a wolf#I'm not actually a fluent English speaker even though it's my first language#fine writing but I don't have too much experience speaking#putting sentences together is like doing a puzzle it's hard#often there's a word at the back of my head that I can't pull to the front so I try to describe with other phrases#i hope this doesn't make me sound unqualified#like I could show you all of it or write essays on it but speaking is hard#and i could do it in French but y'know since I can't verbalize in English well I can't in French either#i was literally raised by a wolf and then spent the rest of my life mostly isolated in the forest#i write and read a lot and correspond with people electronically all the time#but I only speak to like 5 people once a week and that's only been for the last few years#you get it?#so I'm nervous bc I KNOW the English capabilities will leave#imagine a language that you're kind of good at but you've been on and off studying#now imagine you have to do a spoken interview in that#that's me with any of my languages including English#this DOES make it really easy to learn foreign languages quickly#which is why I can WRITE in 5 very well#speaking is a different matter
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