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Hans51 Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Is this true?

Some Korean-English teacher insists that native English speakers do not look up English words in dictionaries.

Is this true?

I would like to hear from as many as possible.

Thank you so much as usual.
  

Top answer

Very broadly speaking, I'd say this. Well educated people don't usually need to. Poorly educated people usually don't bother to.

— Clive

  • Very broadly speaking, I'd say this.
  • Well educated people don't usually need to.
  • Poorly educated people usually don't bother to.
  • Do Korean people use Korean dictionaries a lot?
  • Clive
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Very broadly speaking, I'd say this.
Well educated people don't usually need to.
Poorly educated people usually don't bother to.

Do Korean people use Korean dictionaries a lot?

Clive
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Thank you so much but to understand meanings exactly in reading newspapers and books, sometimes I do and then what about students? I think that the reason we can speak our mother tongue is that we did or do study it, using dictionaries when we were young.

And then I have one more question.

Do you think that as a grown up, is it possible to learn English as a mother tongue? Or we
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Again broadly speaking, I think younger people learn a lot of words through speaking and specially by reading, ie by seeing new words in a variety of contexts,

Your mother tongue is usually defined as the language your mother spoke to you when you were a small child.
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