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1. It's great, I don't take it for granted. It's not surprising because I know that english is a common language for business and is basically the world's lingua franca now 2. I like songs in other languages, Despacito is a huge radio hit in America and it's mostly sung in spanish. We don't get a lot of exposure to songs sung in other languages unless you deliberately look for it though 3. I've never heard it pronounced 'goodness', that's a different word entirely. I've only heard it pronounced as gaw-dess, and that's how I would pronounce it. 4. I've never heard of this, it sounds like a thing little kids would tell each other. Nobody going to a funeral would hold their breath. 5. The idea behind it is if there's no shadow, there's probably a lot of cloud cover which would act as insulation to keep the earth warm. It's probably nonsense though. The most famous groundhog is in Pennsylvania, USA. They keep the groundhog in a cage for most of the year and then pull him out on februrary 2nd for a small ceremony. When the groundhog dies they get another one. 6. It all feels like english but some kinds are harder to understand. Scottish-english I can only understand some of the words but I can make out the general meaning of what they are trying to say. Most forms of english are very easy to understand. I've never in my life had a problem understanding what a british or australian person is trying to say, although some slang words I might have to ask what they mean. 7. I would speak in english, and probably slower and with a simpler vocabulary than I might use with a native speaker. If I'm confident in a foreign language I might try to use that.