Reaching High Levels

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Re: Reaching High Levels

Postby arthaey » Sun Jun 17, 2018 9:03 pm

reineke wrote:compliments started turning into complaints: as they became very proficient, they were accepted as native speakers and their mistakes were taken as intentional, causing affront and other kinds of negative reactions from their native-speaker colleagues. Somewhat defective language "protected" them from the higher expectations and judgments that come from being a language user with native-like speech.

I aspire to one day be demotivated by native speakers' criticisms instead of compliments. ;)
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Re: Reaching High Levels

Postby reineke » Sun Aug 26, 2018 5:34 pm

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Re: Reaching High Levels

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