Fluency

I met a Jakarta woman online (language sharing app) who has been studying English since she was 4 years old. Absolutely fluent now, and with only a hint of an accent. Amazing. In the past, she has worked as a professional translator. My goodness, what a difference this makes in the character of conversation! One almost forgets, after nine years in a foreign country, the complexity and nuance and shadings of the English language when employed at a higher skill level. One recalls the pleasure of more sophisticated conversation. Wit, double entendre, sarcasm and so on. I'm out of practice!