Twelve Years Learning English

when you spend 12 years of your life to learn English just to hear natives say: you is, she say, I does

A red-haired woman rolls her eyes in disbelief in a bedroom decorated with plants, artwork, and books. The joke is that after studying English for twelve years, the speaker hears native speakers use grammatically incorrect phrases, making all that formal learning feel pointless. It is used as a sarcastic reaction to hearing bad grammar or realizing that everyday speech differs from textbook English.

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