Re: Has teaching English abroad affected the quality of the English you speak? Oh yes.
Not only do I use the wrong words but put them in the strangest order too!
I've become more aware of it now that I have a baby daughter. I really think before saying some things because I don't want her to pick up Italianised English. Sometimes I don't even realise what I've said and my Italian wife actually corrects me - how bad is that?!!
Not only that I tend to talk more slowly and clearly than I did before.
I guess that's 8 years in a foreign country that does that to you. Or more correctly, 8 years teaching English. Hearing incorrect English day in day out for so long must take its toll eventually.
Nice question!
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