хотя вот среди клиентов http://www.speakwell.co.uk/ и вполне себе нейтивные организации перечислены, но ведь разноцветный состав Metropolitan Police и пр. поддерживается разнарядками и квотами, так что там есть с кем работать

2. "to speak good English" - это collоquial and informal? очень может быть... аккуратно будет так: "my spoken English is good" (или как у Rashid29)

(а по вашему запросу были найдены - и посчитаны - страницы, где эти перечисленные слова в любой комбинации, на любом расстоянии друг от друга)

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новость, неочевидный/повествуемый факт - в конце предложения:
в первом случае такой факт есть владение конкретным иностранным языком
во втором случае - хорошее владение родным языком в устной форме

имхо, да =)

сравните:
I speak English well = я изъясняюсь по-английски хорошо
I speak good/proper/Queen's English = я изъясняюсь на хорошем/королевском английском

Some stuck-up native speakers take it as their mission to correct and over-correct non-natives. A Акварель dal/dala nam podarok! Esli ne hotite verit' samomu Lewis Carroll, to komu-zhe eschyo verit'??

Q: What's your English like?
A: I speak pretty good English.
A: I speak English well.
A: I speak it fluently.
A: It could be better.
A: Good enough. I don't need your help in the slightest...

Вы правы в том, что сам нейтивспикер не сказал бы так о себе... Об этом уже выше говорилось... но вопрос был о конструкции, а не о конкретном предложении...

I speak good English - "good" qualifies the language, not the speakers ability.
I speak English well - "well" qualifies the speaker's ability to use the language

And since no one makes this distinction (at least in the US) we are told that using "I speak good English" is wrong.

That said, when it refers to foreign languages it's perfectly okay to say "I speak good Spanish", so this blows the above explanation out of the water.

Hmmm...Maybe because when it comes to foreign languages, since there is no assumption that the speaker is fluent (otherwise "I am fluent in Spanish would apply), "I speak good Spanish" does not indicate fluency, it indicates level. As in "My Spanish is good" as in "my knowledge of Spanish is good". Does this make sense?

‎"good" is an adjective that modifies the noun "English", so it seems like that should be acceptable. In "speaking English well" the "well" is an adverb that modifies "speaking".

However, most natives who say "I speak good English" are really trying to say that they "speak English well", they are told that they are incorrect.

"I speak English good" is wrong from all angles :))

"I speak English good" is wrong from all angles :))

Is it possible that that's the phrase Katik's native-speaking friend was trying to correct? In other words in his mind, "I speak English good" was equal to "I speak good English"?

Kath, thanx for the consultation but I described just the same in the topicstarter if you've read it, of course. So, everything was clear here from the very beginning...

to Lisulya:
maybe, but i guess the reason is rather in who is saying it (as some of the guys said)- a native or a non-native. In fact, this reason explains it.

Thanx, everyone, for the discussion.

http://www.englishforums.com/English/ISpeakEnglishSpeakEnglish/hxvnv/post.htm

Сам не читал - времени нет, но может кто удосужится...

Another word that may shed some light on this tangle is 'eloquence'. How many Russians have you heard saying: "Я выражаюсь по-русски изысканно"? Talking about own eloquence violates the very spirit of the term. Hence you don't comment :-)