How did you learn English?

As someone who is interested in languages, i was just curious how you autists learned English.

How'd you do it? what did you do?

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Video games

Porn.

Video games, song lyrics, musical instruments manuals, Sup Forums (srsly)

Your mother

Idk

So did you just look up words and shit or did you already have a base in English before hand?

Watch Monty Python.

Hahah funny meme from 2007

English is everywhere
>movies & TV shows (We don't dub movies, we use subs which is makes it easier to become more acquainted with the language)
>pretty much all tech stuff
>7 years of mandatory English classes (usually 9 years because very few people choose French in 10th grade)

It kinda just happened. Don't mean to brag, but all I did was listen to people talk and then babble. In a couple of years I was fluent in English.

school and games

team fortress

Weel, ofc we have english lessons since primary school, but teachers are often shit, and since the vast majority of sudents don't have any interest on learning it (no hobbies that imply reading english), the average level is quite low. Most of the classes are listen and repeat tier, even in high school (ten years ago at least)

>Anonymous
I thought about how I could get paid the most and I dreamed of a chocolate American nigger giving me dick all the time when I took the classes; perfect motivation

I didn't

playing computer games since im 3, i learned it how baby learns to speak, i dont know what i did, i just remember always being able to speak it well during english classess, tho i only recently (1-2 years) have come to understand most of spoken english

My English level comes from:
Mandatory in school: 10%
Videogames: 30%
Use Sup Forums 60%

So basically just do shit in the target language.

youtube

television and films and vidyajames

School lessons with really good teacher gave me a really good basis and RPG games without Russian dubs, English language music and other media gave me everything else.

And I actually shitpost on Sup Forums to improve my skills.

internet
literally just watched videos on youtube and read stuff
then "oh shit i'm actually almost fluent in english"

school english is shit and really basic

As many have stated, school lessons were pretty basic. I watch English documentaries on youtube all the time

I'm native French from Québec. I learned the obligatory bare-bone basics in school.

Then, when I was 17 I had a sudden interest in anime and manga. I was also into video games, my favorite genre being JRPG. It was a time that almost no geek stuff was available in French. So everything I enjoyed was in English. It was around 1994.

I learned alone, with trials and errors through what I enjoyed. Anime, Manga, and video games where my gateway to the English language. I even started enjoying Hollywood movies in original English and started to despise the French dubs.

Years later, when I finally got the internet, I went to the web in English. Strangely, each time I go to the French web, I get confused and I don't understand the lingo at all. So I go back in English. I live my life in French though.

If my interest in geek stuff was 20 late, I may never had learned English because everything is easily accessible in French now.

School knowlege
Google(I can search English sentences and phrase and words in Japanese)

But I can't read long sentences like because I'm so tired.
We have to use our brain to read English.

And I can't look English YouTube viedo because I can't understand what they say too fast.

the power of the weeb

>Anime, Manga, and video games where my gateway to the English language
why
they're all translated into french already

100% this

Pokemon games lol

I read sis whole sing in sa French accent.

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Games and Youtube.
but mostly from The Simpsons.

In France, maybe.
Mais au Québec, c'était de la marde dans les annés 1990 début 2000.
Only a tiny tiny bit of translated work was in French and it was FUCK-ALL for video games. Especially JRPG.

Mais aujourd'hui, le Français est partout et facile d'acces. That's why if the me of 23 years ago was here and now, no English will ever be learned.

You might as well be. Because even though I'm pretty good at reading, writing, and listening to English, I have almost no practice of actually speaking it.

Watching tv shows and cartoons and then reading fanfiction about them

gradually. i didn't even have to read any rules or anything. just repeated after my parents and it only took me about 2 years to get pretty fluent. and i learned some more words since then.

Moved to Australia

t. Boer

most of us learned it when we were stupid kids and when you're a stupid kid you don't have any elaborate system or sophisticated training techniques, you just banged your head against the wall until you got better

also: kids learn languages much faster than adults

There was no other way to properly play adult games and browse forums for perverts so it was inevitable.

That is how i am with Japanese right now. I can read and understand a lot, but can't say much.

From watching anglo cartoons

Runescape and Simpsons

My dad used to bring movies and we watched English news and cartoons plus English was compulsory in school

Films, Internet, Games and quality education.

I studied it.

> an amerifat
> interested in other languages

Nah, dont believe you.

Classes

Mandatory school: Basics and verbal forms
Internet: how actual human beings speak
Translators & google: specific words & vocabulary
if you dont know a 2nd language thats just because you are lazy

Video games. The tough ones. Adventure/puzzle games like Monkey Island were the most helpful. They're almost designed to teach English

90% of amerifats learning languages in Sup Forums go something like "oh man i wish i learned a 2nd language, what are some tips after i ignored all of my high school years and i actually want people to empatizize with me rather than actually learn a 2nd language. tell me the SECRET"

I was borned in the greatest cunt on earth

school (the basis)
song lyrics (this may be hard for younger people for whom buying cds and reading the lyrics isnt a thing anymore)
internet message boards and videogames with a lot of text, like turn based rpgs.

Your English is dogshit, Jacques

Have fun selling your house to cover your health care

>be like 7 years old
>listen some of my brother's music
>like it
>search the lyrics with translation
>repeat
Done

At the beggining with Duolingo, so I stopped using it and got started learning by my own with flashcards, online grammars, books, films, vydias, and so on.
Nothing so different from the way that all of you learned.

Mostly through hip-hop music and videogames. But, of course, English was a subject in school too.

Why didn't you learn Japanese instead at the time?
School education for basic and online game + forum for actually exercising written communication. Thus my spoken English is still pretty bad.

By the way, how can one learn to deal with (understand) English with Indian accent?

Just don't talk to Pajeets. That is what the rest of us do.

Too many Indian professors in my university ...

>How'd you do it? what did you do?
I killed native english speakers and ate their tongues.
Homever, after 21st tongue, I figured that it doesen't work as intended. And frankly, they taste very bad.
So I took a book and started to learn.

I went to an engineering college where there were a lot of indian students. They always wore flipflops even during the winter and it was annoying because their feet smelled and were unsightly and crusty. Was it the same at your uni?

Tell them to speak properly. No one likes Pajeet English they have the worst accent ever.

That is true

Never encountered that... It have been done by some students but not by Indian, at least not among those that are in the same class with me.

1, music very early on
2. videogames came next
3. lived in the states for almost 2 years
I had no choice. Sometimes I even catch myself thinking or even dreaming in english. It's bs tb.h

>Sometimes I even catch myself thinking or even dreaming in english. It's bs tb.h
There is nothing wrong with this

I'm a native speaker

Do any others feel bad that others learn your language so you don't have to learn theirs? Like, I'd rather go to say, Germany and have to learn a little bit of German than have everyone already know English (I've never been though so I don't really know the situation I must confess, but from reading about it this is what it seems to be to me)

cuck

parents used to say things in english
i thought it would be best to make an effort to understand what they were on about

it is an exaggeration to say that everyone knows english there. some are fluent, some not so much. but most importantly their worst english would still be better than your german. and nobody wants to make an effort to understand your beginner's level german, much less help you learn it. not just germans. france is the same.