I'm not sure Crystal, you (as Dutch do) have a such a command on language. I so enjoy your perspective. ...and what little is lost in translation,I enjoy working out.
Yeah, but I've been an English teach and have been in a relationship with an English bloke for 10-11 yrs so I've been speaking the lingo daily for over a decade. Spent time in Oz when younger etc. etc.
But even I had a bit of a problem on here at first. I'd never really been exposed to AmE. Well, tv of course, but not conversation, slang etc like you find on here. BrE, yes, familiar with that, AmE not so much. In the beginning I needed Google dictionary function quite often, lol.
I write in English (the books I'm working on), talk to my cats in English -I'm a nutter, I know!-, I can do a serious domestic in English (had lots of training with my ex, haha), and until recently sex was in English. My part of it anyways
even when the other was Dutch.
And when I get emotional and we need to talk, I still switch to English. Somehow works better for me. Easier to express my feelings in English than in Dutch for some peculiar reason.
So funny, my first date after breaking up didn't understand English at all. He was into French and France. Obviously that didn't work out for me cos I use a lot of English in day-to-day speech and he didn't get me, nor my play on words. Needless to say I never dated him again
Just doesn't work. (serious deal breaker, not kidding)
The guy I'm seeing now is an English teach, so not a problem with him. He's now doing sex in English as well, haha, I think I'm contagious?
So I'm not your average Cloggie when it comes to English. I guess I'm a bit of a fruitcake -grin.
A nice tasting one though