what would you think of a person who learned English as a second language?

Answer 1

As an ESL teacher, I have quite a biased opinion. I think these people are very talented and open-minded. Good for them! Hard workers, the lot of them, for mastering our complicated language!

Answer 2

My Grandmother was British, yet English was her second language! She was born in the Outer Hebrides in the 1890's and, until she was 30, spoke only Gaelic, other than the English she learned at school. I only remember her as an old lady who spoke English with a pronounced Scottish accent and with a few odd-sounding turns of phrase (she used to use the words "fetch" and "take" the otherway around: - "Fetch something over there and take something here").

Answer 3

Well, people who learn and are learning English as a second language should be highly appreciated. In general, I think people who can speak more than one languages should be appreciated because learning a language is not a piece of a cake but a big matter. therefore, if in any case, you're ashamed of not being an English native speaker, I should advise you not to feel it anymore. People like you are much better than people who can only speak English!

Answer 4

Well, my mother is Asian and she learnt English as a second language in her early 20s. Now she speaks and writes it better than some people I know who have English as a mother tongue. I think it shows you are smart and dedicated, because while all languages are hard to completely master, English is one of the hardest, especially if your native language is something like an Asian language because they are completely different languages.

Answer 5

Depends on how well they've learned it. I don't really have respect for people that have lived in an English speaking country for 10 years and can only speak 5 words of English.

Answer 6

I respect people like that a lot coz i know that it's quite challenging.I'm learning French as a second language and i know how difficult it can be trying to learn a foreign language.

Answer 7

There are most probably more people who speak English as a second language than those who speak it as a first one.
Here we HAVE to learn it in school.

Answer 8

Since we English are so bad at learning other languages we should admire anybody who takes the time and effort to learn ours.

Answer 9

My fiancée speaks English as a second language, so I would have to say I hold them in the highest regard.

Answer 10

well, i learned english as third language, now i can even speak it better than my second language which is french, my first is arabic, my forth is spanish