How good is your English, and where did you learn it?
It definitely helped that I learned as a kid. My parents hate dubbed films, so both my sister and I got exposed to the language frequently. There was also a Disney course for children to learn English, and you bet we studied with it almost every day, and finally pretty much all of the music we listened to was in English. This was also when Youtube had just become a thing and we were pretty addicted to it. Later on, when we were teens, our family paid us an English course that claimed you could become fluent in 8-9 months, and I'd say this is when we really got a good grasp of the language.
I seriously don't remember a lot. School started to teach us English at around the 4th grade. Rougly when I was 10. I am taught English for around 5 years after that in school. I didn't know how muc I knew at that time but my English was pretty good in school. Because we weren't in an English-speaking country, I had no real life experience of speaking with natives. Later (Just after 5 years of school learning, when I was in High school in Turkey), we moved to the UK. I realized that my English was pretty good (better than I thought) and I had not many problems with speaking, writing and reading. There were a lot of words I didn't know though, but I usually understood the theme at least. Listening was a huge issue when we first got here (Scots does nae [not] speak English, their accent still bothers me), especially understanding students was a great problem for me (it still is though), but teachers were clear most of the time. So I didn't go to any language courses, I was a high schooler in the UK now. It's been 1,5 years, my English is probably upper intermediate (I would say around B2 in CEFR, but not sure) now. I am not sure because I didn't take any tests but I am pretty comfortable with reading and writing in English. I love American English (British as well) and seriously can listen (and understand) someone for hours if they speak proper English, but when a Scottish speaks, I lose all my motivation and want him to stop talking. I now don't seriously try to learn English, I learn as words and phrases pop up somewhere. It still can be tough when it comes to complex expressions but I can handle pretty much everything now. This pretty much it. School was very helpful for me even though it is mostly considered as bad and unsuccessfull about teaching English in my country. I think everything is up to you. You can learn it if you want to learn, not just for exams. Also gaming. When I was around 13 there was this PS1 jrpg called Grandia. I couldn't wait for the German version to be released so I bought the English version. I only understood the gist of all the text but I still read everything and loved it. How did you learn English so well, and how often do you practice your conversational English? When did you learn to speak English? How fluent are you at speaking it? How many people do you know that can speak it?
One of the things that amazes me about this sub is so many people from so many different countries that can speak English so well despite it not being a native language. Especially from eastern Europe, since the alphabet's completely different in some places. Also, how many other languages do you know? I'm trying to learn German at the moment, but es ist nicht einfach.
I seriously don't remember a lot. School started to teach us English at around the 4th grade. Rougly when I was 10. I am taught English for around 5 years after that in school. I didn't know how muc I knew at that time but my English was pretty good in school. Because we weren't in an English-speaking country, I had no real life experience of speaking with natives. Later (Just after 5 years of school learning, when I was in High school in Turkey), we moved to the UK. I realized that my English was pretty good (better than I thought) and I had not many problems with speaking, writing and reading. There were a lot of words I didn't know though, but I usually understood the theme at least. Listening was a huge issue when we first got here (Scots does nae [not] speak English, their accent still bothers me), especially understanding students was a great problem for me (it still is though), but teachers were clear most of the time. So I didn't go to any language courses, I was a high schooler in the UK now. It's been 1,5 years, my English is probably upper intermediate (I would say around B2 in CEFR, but not sure) now. I am not sure because I didn't take any tests but I am pretty comfortable with reading and writing in English. I love American English (British as well) and seriously can listen (and understand) someone for hours if they speak proper English, but when a Scottish speaks, I lose all my motivation and want him to stop talking. I now don't seriously try to learn English, I learn as words and phrases pop up somewhere. It still can be tough when it comes to complex expressions but I can handle pretty much everything now. This pretty much it. School was very helpful for me even though it is mostly considered as bad and unsuccessfull about teaching English in my country. I think everything is up to you. You can learn it if you want to learn, not just for exams. Also gaming. When I was around 13 there was this PS1 jrpg called Grandia. I couldn't wait for the German version to be released so I bought the English version. I only understood the gist of all the text but I still read everything and loved it. How did you learn English so well, and how often do you practice your conversational English? When did you learn to speak English? How fluent are you at speaking it? How many people do you know that can speak it?
One of the things that amazes me about this sub is so many people from so many different countries that can speak English so well despite it not being a native language. Especially from eastern Europe, since the alphabet's completely different in some places. Also, how many other languages do you know? I'm trying to learn German at the moment, but es ist nicht einfach.
