"How Well Do You Speak English?" Topic

Only English people can claim a 10.

according to my friends I speak "Merican"

From all the 9s and 10s, I don't think most people understand the poll (or maybe I just don't understand it). I didn't think it was just 'how well do you understand English?' I was assuming it was a measure of your mastery of the language. How well do you use it? A 10 would be a Lincoln or a Churchill, who could use words to inspire or sadden or anger.

Me iz an gud Inglissh talker guys.

Jag talar engelska bra

Moi aussi.

From all the 9s and 10s, I don't think most people understand the poll (or maybe I just don't understand it). I didn't think it was just 'how well do you understand English?' I was assuming it was a measure of your mastery of the language. How well do you use it? A 10 would be a Lincoln or a Churchill, who could use words to inspire or sadden or anger.

Watcha saying bro ? If I'm not much mistook them sounds like Fighting Words.

I did not understand the point of the poll at all.

Scott, the poll question chose brevity over clarity, but you might find the pre-poll discussion informative.

I grew up hearing English spoken in the home. I passed my written tests. I speak it a little, and can follow spoken English if the speaker isn't going too fast.

Now, I do speak Army, Air Force, Analyst and Bureaucratese with varying levels of fluency, and am sometimes called upon to translate one to another, or any of them into English. (I know a few words of Navy and Marine, but couldn't be said to speak either one.)

I englash bet thane spake it.

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As an American I will claim an 8

Scottish and picked "6" but I'm sure English folk would say "2". Mind you even some Scots have trouble understanding me.

I thought Aberdonians spoke the purest English.

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English, as with any language, is what the speakers make of it. The arguments over whether an individual speaks it well quite often come down to arguments over which dialect a given person or class of people prefers or assumes places them as superior to others who speak a different dialect. The truth, of course, is that a speaker of one dialect is likely just as ignorant of another individual's dialect as he is of theirs. Neither is truly "English" compared to the other, except as fact of geographical location of the speaker. Thinking otherwise is simply putting on airs.

Therefore, of the English that I speak and is spoken in my circle, geographic location and culture, I am indisputably a master. 10.

Been practicing at least 55 years but not sure I still have it down, 2 years in England for a bonus as well.

I believe that I have mastered the quintessential elements of the elusive word utilization characteristic of the language, thanks very much for inquiring

Shouldn't it be "enquiring"?