i am sad =<

[Shikra]

Re: i am sad =<

@phatima1

Yes, you learned English from there, but the only reason you can speak it fluently is because you’ve been living in an English-speaking country for the past 10-12 years now. I’m positive your English wouldn’t be as perfect if you had just come from Pakistan.

An obvious example is how people often make fun of “FOBs” because of their English. They could be really smart with computers or whatnot but their English is not fluent. And there’s nothing wrong with that, either, I’m just trying to make my point here that it’s not common to see a person who is living in a country where the literacy rate is pushing just around 30% and English is a second language to have such fluent English..

Voicee, that’s a compliment, buddy

Phati You are getting confused between SPEAKING ENGLISH FLUENTLY and FOBBY ACCENT.

People who know how to read/write English, don’t you think they can speak it too, that too fluently? I have seen students who came from Pakistan and spoke English fluently, the only problem was their accent.

As for me, when I came to the US 10 years ago, I could speak English fluently in school, it’s just that I had the accent. I have worked on it, it hasn’t completely gone but it’s much better now.

My point is that depending on which school you attend there, some kids speak/read/write BETTER english than kids who were born here in the US. Accent doesn’t matter much as long as you are able to comprehend what the other person is saying. When I came here, my English papers had LESS grammatical errors than kids who have been speaking/writing it since they started attending school.