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Originally Posted by smudgie

Yinrun is not struggling with the English language.
She is very intelligent, has an amazingly good vocabulary, she uses words that are anything but basic English.

Picking up specific words through living here doesn't mean that she understands everything though.

It's perfectly reasonable that she has big holes in her vocab and sometimes misses nuance and obscure words that she hasn't encountered before.

You would have to be pretty uncharitable to not extend her that.

Mandarin (which I assume is her first lang) is just so different after all.