He's correct, Xie wouldn't be surprised but only because he's been on the receiving end of that kind of assumption, especially when he was younger and still learning, his spoken English hadn't been that great, but he could understand quite a lot of it.
He'd used it, too, once or twice.
"So what you're saying is I don't need to have made so much effort to speak English this whole time?" He asks. Most of the time it's not that much effort, but sometimes when he's tired or distracted or otherwise struggling to think, it does take more energy than usual to translate everything.
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Date: 2023-11-16 04:58 pm (UTC)He's correct, Xie wouldn't be surprised but only because he's been on the receiving end of that kind of assumption, especially when he was younger and still learning, his spoken English hadn't been that great, but he could understand quite a lot of it.
He'd used it, too, once or twice.
"So what you're saying is I don't need to have made so much effort to speak English this whole time?" He asks. Most of the time it's not that much effort, but sometimes when he's tired or distracted or otherwise struggling to think, it does take more energy than usual to translate everything.