NTA.

Your bf is T A.

My ex did this to me. He used to belittle my English skills even tho my English was objectively superior to his. We were different nationalities and we used English to communicate, I could even speak his native tongue but he couldn’t say a word in mine. It was embarrassing to me and I hated it. Also, you should know my ex was narcissistic and had BPD. And this was one of the ways he used to torture me.

Also, I grew up in a household with my mum and her husband (not my bio father). He is the person to fixate on a word and twist the meaning. He does the EVERYTHING situation on regular basis. It was horrible to endure it. I hated how he treated my mum. I never forgave him for that. My mum tried to explain to him for years that it’s not okay to fixate on 1 word and to this the meaning of the sentence. He never listens. This has been an issue since I was old enough to notice and understand it. I am 30 now and it is still an issue in my household when I visit them. They both speak the same native language but he still hyperfixate on one word and twist the meaning of the whole sentence. …also, my mums husband used to bully me when I was growing up. It ended after I not only moved out of the house but also moved countries (so that way I would visit them only 2-3 times a year). Just to paint the picture what are these kind of people…

So please be aware that this behaviour is not okay. It will either drive you insane that someone keeps twisting your words or you’ll have to learn to ignore that your partner is trying to verbally abuse you.