I know this site proably have a lot of foreign writers who writes in English. I would like to know - do you think the English language is holding you back when you write in it? To those who have mastered -how did you do it? What made you a better English writer given your choice of words? Would you prefer your own language if there was a greater market for it?
I'm English and have never learned another language. English is the language of the internet and international business. It's most nations second language. I believe Mandarin, Hindustani and Spanish compete with English as the most popular spoken languages.
English is a concise language compared to European languages. It's an interesting fact, that novels written in English, have approximately 20% more words when they're translated into European languages.