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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
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Hi. I would like to know if it is ever possible to master the language at a level a native speaker has
  

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It is. A few non-native speakers manage it.

— Anonymous

  • It is.
  • A few non-native speakers manage it.
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It is. A few non-native speakers manage it.
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Anonymous Hi. I would like to know if it is ever possible to master the language at a level a native speaker has
Yes. The novelists Conrad and Nabokov are good examples. Their first language was not English, but they were quite successful writing novels in English.

CJ
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Jespersen was one of several non-native speakers whose mastery of the language was such that they could write important grammars of the English language.
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