eh, do 100 tiktoks i bet you'd be surprised
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I mean, 2nd language sure but you can get to serious fluency
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feels like i haven't conveyed-
you can get comparatively more fluent than everybody except the 1% of people who started native and went hard, the equivalent of Simone Biles and Victor Wooten etc. a millennial who's serious can outclass 95-98% of zoomers
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Longest speech ever delivered at the UN was by Krishna Menon, on the subject of Kashmir.
POTUS Eisenhower described him as a “menace”.
“My English is better than yours. You merely picked it up, I learned it.” Ooooh I felt that one 
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._K._Kri
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not to belabor the point too much i just have a lot of feelings about this
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if you argue for your limitations you get to keep them
any power user smart enough to know how to wrangle a large audience possesses the cognitive machinery required to learn a new medium
good musicians make good painters and vice versa once/if they get past the initial hump
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just imagine someone who's never used twitter before but they're great at sth totally different, and then they come here and they're kind of clueless about the form, the norms, etc – but it's actually really fresh and endearing, and they know so much about stuff we don't
same
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earnest, enthusiastic outsiders who are respectfully clueless are wonderful guests. (this describes almost all children)
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such a wholesome train of thought 🥰
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broooooooo 😭
