I got into a discussion w someone and they were insisting that my first language is English just Bc I cannot read korean fluidly.
I learned English as an elementary student when I moved to America w my family.
No one in my family spoke English while I was attending an American school so it took me a long time to speak and articulate my thoughts clearly in English.
I still speak korean whenever I am w family and koreanacquaintances.
The person I had this "discussion" with is from the Caribbean.
He was saying his first language is African. He uses the notion that African Americans don't have a true language anymore due to slavery and his that his Caribbean accent was evidence as support.
This didn't make sense to me Bc I know in Africa, there are different languages in each country.