Have you ever seen someone speak English articulately, but English was not their first language?

Question

I don't mean sounding fluent, I mean speaking articulately.

Answer 1

Frequently.  Sometimes even better than most people whose first language is English.

Answer 2

It depends what you mean with articulately.

English is not my first nor second language, but now I live in Hong Kong and I need to use it every day.

My accent should be horribly Italian. I possibly  use a lot of wrong words, because they are phonetically similar with Italian or French words but they have different meaning. My sentences' structure could be fuzzy: meanwhile I can transmit complex concepts to English speakers.

If my English is articulate in your scale, I have seen and known many people whose first language is not English to speak it.

Otherwise, if you mean people learning English only from textbooks and speaking it as a native speaker... well, this could be possible but it is highly unlikely to happen

Answer 3

Sure.  I have friends from China, El Salvador, Mexico, Romania, and Russia.  They speak fantastic English.

All the best.

Answer 4

I surely have. In fact some times they spoke it better than those who spoke english as their first language! ;D

Answer 5

Yes lots of people do it i have relives from germany and they speak better english lots of people.  

Answer 6

Yes, I know plenty of people like that.

Answer 7

perhaps you wanna say what artivulately means.

you still havent tell me the dfelinition of that a word

Answer 8

Yeap.

English was not my first language...

But I speak it so fluently that no one would know I'm from an Asian country. ;]

Answer 9

yes

Answer 10

No, well actually yes, but she sometimes has a spanish accent to her words so I dont know if that counts...

Answer 11

articulation without fluency?...

must be cool...

like running on a wheelchair

Answer 12

I have known many many people who could manage that.

Answer 13

I have spoken to people and couldn't tell than english was not their first language. There is an accent depending where they learned english. Bostonian accents crack me up, and new england inflections. It is hard to detect a person some times due to the accents we have in different areas of america.

Answer 14

Yes, of course.  

Answer 15

Quite often. It's pretty embarrasing.

Answer 16

ummm yes!

Answer 17

I am German and so far nobody would have guessed me for being a german. And when i tell people i am from germany they are shocked.