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06-12-2011, 06:51 PM

KyleGoetz, good points. thanks.

but don't you think a non-native can achieve "native like" levels of speaking? i think for that to happen simply the environment has to change. give an educated person who takes in new things easily 5 or even 10 years in desired language's society and there won't be anyone left to tell whether or not the person is native.

don't you think?

however this also presents the problem - the person might start making native speaking average Joe's mistakes because of that. well if not paying close attention the whole time.
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