How many american people are perfect in English?

Answer 1

Actually, every human adult who has normal language learning ability is perfectly fluent in whatever language they learn as a child. Every human carries a complete and fluent grammar of their language around in their brain. So, in that sense, every normal American is perfect in English. However, every one of those grammars are different in some way. There are no two people who have exactly the same grammar of their native language. There is no such thing as a perfect grammar of any language separate from the grammars that speakers of that language have in their brains and use on a daily basis. Grammars in books and standardized grammars are completely artificial constructs and have no bearing on reality.

Answer 2

At the last count, 11 or 12 American people were perfect in English. Most of these have emigrated. One became the inspiration for the character Hannibal Lecter, the other for Sideshow Bob. These pieces of fiction are the most famous Americans whose English is perfect.

Answer 3

Well, define perfect. English has the largest vocabulary of any known language on Earth and I doubt many know all of it, let alone USE it all on a regular basis. This not only applies to Americans, but any person who speaks this over sized language.

Answer 4

I feel like I should clarify Taivo's response - he's said everything I would in answer to this question, but his use of the term "grammar" may be confusing.

For linguists, the term "grammar" refers simply to the rules governing the use of language. The kinds of rules you learn naturally that no one ever told you, and that you probably couldn't talk about if asked.

For example, a grammatical rule would be to add the [z] sound to the ends of nouns to pluralize them. No one ever told you to do this, but you do it anyway. All of the rules you need to know how to speak a language are learned naturally without instruction - that's one of the things that makes humans different from animals.

The "grammar" that they teach in school is what linguists call "prescriptive grammar" - they tell you the rules that they think you SHOULD use in your language, not the ones you actually do use. For example, a prescriptive grammar rule would be "don't split your infinitives." Every native speaker of English does this naturally, and it's perfectly grammatical to do so - you understand what it means. Grammarians tell you not to because old British grammarians imported that rule from Latin & Greek, and in those languages it's not possible to split an infinitive and have it still make sense.

Anyway, different dialects have different rules that govern their use. Yes, that means things like the use of "y'all" are grammatical - they have unspoken rules that govern they way they are used! Thus, there are multiple "grammars" that one can use.

I hope this clears up any possible confusion!

Answer 5

No one, American or otherwise is perfect in English. And it is a popular misconception that you can't end an English sentence in a preposition. My college English teacher said this rule worked its way into English from Latin, but it has no place in English.

Answer 6

No one's perfect at English. No one knows ALL the words, no one NEVER makes a slip.

Answer 7

All of we is perfect in the English. Why would you think are English are not perfect?

Answer 8

I would have to say zero because there are way too many words to learn. Unless one studies medical terms in English, they will not know those English words. For example, angina,cardiologist,etc. Same thing with scientific terms, law terms,etc.

Answer 9

We don't speak perfect English, most of us use slangs too.

Answer 10

None, we speak American, a dialect of English