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in which he basically asserts that the only speakers of really good English are the foreigners who've deliberately studied the language.
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Having learned German from scratch this way I can report similar comments on my usage of it. I also usually experience that natives are far more sloppy with the grammar than I am and there is a pretty handful of correct grammar structures commonly dropped or ignored by people as soon as they leave school (esp. proper usage of Genitiv and Konjunktiv)