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In answer to the question:

Can you speak English?

Which of the following is correct?

  1. I can speak it good enough.

  2. I can speak it well enough.

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In Standard English, which is what speakers of other languages learn, it's the second.

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    Or to rephrase: For people who don't speak English well enough, the first sentence is not good enough.
    – Matt
    Apr 10, 2013 at 20:14
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    @Matt: Such people would do well to avoid saying "I speak English good".
    – FumbleFingers
    Apr 10, 2013 at 20:49

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