• rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    I have a hard time believing that there are regions in England where native English speakers are on the English proficiency level of France. Unless you classify any dialect as “bad English”.

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      You haven’t been to enough regions of England mate. I’m only slightly joking when I say it can get bad. Not “it’s a difficult to understand dialect” but “how the hell did you even make it through the state school system?” bad. Genuinely some of the first generation immigrants speak better English than some of the locals.

      Source: grew up in one of these regions.

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        Yes, that’s what a dialect is. Well, thanks for clearing up what you meant.

        Also, I’d assume even the heaviest dialect speaker will usually be able to write perfectly understandable sentences in a written test.