Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-32486806-20180209114542/@comment-31136517-20180210065220

Thanks for that.

English is not my mother tongue (Spanish [from Spain] is), although I have been using it as my daily working language for 20 years and French also on a daily basis for a few years too. I’m not perfect in either foreign (for me) language —in fact I am no longer perfect in Spanish, either, but over all these years, including having also learnt basic German and some Japanese, I have realized that finally what matters is not to speak a language like a native speaker but to understand and to make oneself understood.

As to writing in forums, well, even native speakers make mistakes —how many times I have seen an English speaker write “it’s” (it is) for “its” (of it), and a few other recurring mistakes like “you’re” for “your”. In French-speaking forums it’s much, much worse; tons of spelling mistakes and grammar errors. So who cares if a non-native speaker makes one or the other mistake; even big mistakes. And if somebody picks on it to undermine your arguments, he’s only publicly showing how small he is.

So thanks to all the native speakers in this and other forums for bearing with us, non-native speakers for making us feel not only welcome it also valuable contributors 🙏

(Sirebel, nederlands, of vlaams? Ik heb in Groningen voor een jaar geleeft en ik heb in Ghent en Leuven een master gestudieerd. Maar ik heb mijn Nederlands vergeten...)