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Not trying to pry, but is english your second language?

I assume not, but I have the exact same thing with articles (“the” and “a”/“an”) that you have, except for me it was clearly caused by english being my second (my native language doesn’t have the concept of articles like that at all). And I got much better at it over time too, but it still slips through all the time for me. Less so in writing (even though it still happens not that rarely), but moreso in speech.



English is 1st. I learned other languages as an adult and have similar pronunciation issues and with hearing my own mistakes.


Wow, that’s interesting. Thanks for the response, I genuinely appreciate it!




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