I’ve never been able to confirm if it’s true, but there’s a story about a bunch of 18 year olds from the Netherlands and the UK who were given an English language test (IELTS). The Dutch kids scored higher.
Technically Chinese would have been my native language along with Korean. But when I moved to the US I just never used it. My parents spoke to me in English, my mom mixes in Korean. I had no friends that spoke Chinese. So I just never improved past what I learned at a elementary level.
I’m like you’re insulting me, because I’m Taiwanese looking (I don’t even look that Taiwanese tbh) I must speak Chinese and can’t speak English? The guys Chinese was better than mine so. I prefer to converse in English when I can, it flows easier.