Re:Ask HN: How did you become fluent in English?
by stordoff on Sunday April 08, 2018 @11:14PM
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The guy's English _is_ excellent (100% intelligible and reads fine), but there can still be a long way between excellent/"functional fluency" and a native speaker. A native speaker wouldn't say "I'm exposed to English when I'm ~4 yo" (they would say "I _was_ exposed..." or "I've been exposed... since...") or capitalise "Job". Small things in the grand scheme of things, but they make it fairly obvious it's a non-native speaker.
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Re:Ask HN: How did you become fluent in English?
by bayindirh on Monday April 09, 2018 @02:03AM
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Thanks for your comments. I generally write at the speed of thought, and don't read my comments for a second time to correct my errors.
These tense changes happen when I change the structure of the comment in my head in the real time, and don't revisit the beginning of the sentence to align things back.
When I read them for the second time after I send, I spot the errors, but don't always correct them since they are online and intended people possibly read the comment already.
Maybe I should write a little slower while commenting, and read again before sending.