3 Ways to Gain a Writer’s Edge as a Non-Native Speaker

Language up your writing

Stephan Joppich
The Writing Cooperative
4 min readMay 22, 2021

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English is the mother tongue of the internet.

Non-native speakers — myself included — are forced to write in English if they want to reach a big audience with their writing.

Despite learning English since primary school, writing in English is still an obstacle for me. I’m…

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