Lil Brat
I can usually tell when English is someone's second or third language... not so much as there may be misspelled words, but in the arrangement of the words in the sentence. This is especially true with Spanish or Latin languages... verbs and nouns are opposite of the way English sentences are constructed.
Am I obvious non-English speaker? biggrin
Just for the conversation, that is something that I have also noted. Linguistic ear (as it can be called) do develop over a time despite differences in grammars. I do form sentences in very different way when I speak my native language, I just turn the switch from Finnish to English manner of speaking as best I can.
And of course, age and what kind of teaching person has had for the language means a lot. Correct if I speak nonsense, but I think that level of education can vary great deal between different countries. I wouldn't expect French person to speak proper English. They seem to be very proud of their own language and not very fond of using any other.
