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human
CMV: It's not rude to correct someone's English if they're learning it as a second language.

A lot of people seem to think it's rude to correct someone's English, and to me it seems that it's only rude if it's condescending or the person is a native English speaker. I think that if someone is learning English (which is a difficult language to learn) and makes a mistake then it'd be a good thing for someone to correct them. This way they'll learn something new about the language that they'll use later.   


If I were learning another language, then I know I'd want people to help me as long as they weren't being rude about it. One of the easiest ways to learn a language is by speaking to people who have already mastered said language, but a lot of that probably comes from them correcting your mistake. Otherwise you'd have to hear the correct way to say/write something multiple times before you'd realize you were making a mistake, and even then it'd be confusing since different rules apply to different words, for example, someone may think the plural of goose would be "gooses" because someone said the plural of dog was "dogs", so they'd just assume that plural means you add an S.  If someone corrected them when they said "gooses", then they'd learn right then instead of having to read the word "geese" somewhere.
gpt
I think fluency is developed through practice, which takes a combination of opportunity and courage. If someone is getting corrected all the time, even though they are capably communicating what they mean to, it’s bound to interrupt their ability get in the flow, not to mention sap their courage to practice a second language.