As far as studying French and using French learning materials is concerned, speaking French literally with French natives does not necessarily qualify or disqualify a person according to how and where they have learned the language.
It’s like this, when you are a wide reader and have read hundreds of books in your entire lifetime including the fact you have learned French along the way, does it make you a very good French speaker? What about the person who have spent all his life living, breathing and speaking the French language, would he be considered an extremely effective French speaker? And let’s not forget an avid fan of the French language, studying the French language in college, in a reputable university.
What’s so ironic about the three types of people stated above is that, regardless of the learning style they have gone through and used in learning the French language, there is still no guarantee that each of them is better than the other. This doesn’t necessarily mean as well that a French speaker knows everything there is about their language.
It’s similar to the case of English speakers. The native English...