Do you think that the person must be

  1. born in a bilingual country / completely indifferent to native, educated speakers of the language
  2. able to write, speak and hear with little to no grammatical errors in almost any situations / able to take college level classes without language barrier.
  3. able to conduct any casual conversations with little to no grammatical errors

or worse?

English is not my first language but I’m quite confident myself. And I’m always torn between saying that I’m bilingual or just fluent.

A lot of the times, I think in English and sometimes even dream in English but I also have never spent a single day in an English speaking country in my life. It’s weird to know that I’m not a bilingual per se but to think like one. Just wanted to know if anyone had similar experience.

  • balance_sheet@lemmy.worldOP
    1·
    1 year ago

    I mean indifferent as basically the same. Stronger than indistinguishable. You can be pretty much indistinguishable and have some differences to native speakers

    • cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me
      2·
      1 year ago

      It was clear what you meant. But while this might be used in very rare cases like indistinguishable, it almost never is. If it’s not distinguishable, you can’t get stronger ;)