How did most non-Anglos here learn English?

I'm not asking this in Sup Forums, bc I'm interested in whether knowing English and being able to read the US/Brit news sites has impacted your political views, and if so how. Are you more red-pilled than friends who don't speak/read it as well?
Example, would Germans be less cucked if all of them understood English (I know many do, but esp in rural areas, a decent number don't. French don't learn English as a matter of pride).

Yes, the US media is the great satan that poisons the world, but then again almost any dissenting view you are going to find, it will be in English since (for now) we still have the first amendment here.

Also, in most cases, internationals here (legit ones, not proxy fags) speak/write English better than many Americans, certainly better than spics or niggers.

So for non-US/anglosphere nations, how did you learn and how has it changed your politics?

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Bump. This is one of few Interesting topics in a while, hope intl anyone will answer..

I also want to know what American English sounds to them. Last time I asked people this they said we sound like pirates, or sleepy pirates. Don't post that stupid fucking kike dance video either you degenerate fucking faggots.

fuck, do we now have so view non-anglopshere posters that no one can answer?
It's also a shit time to post this (4-5am in most of Europe).

Want to repost tomm if this goes nowhere tonight, genuinely curious.

Final Fantasy VII and bunch of other popular games, at least that's what I've heard in the past.

Watching "Narcos" right now on NEtflix is triggering me bc I feel like they are shoving spanish down our throats.

HAve to try watching.."Marseille" (is that name of Netflix French series?) bc I could be into learning that from TV, but this triggers me.

the Jews are intentionally making more good shows in Spanish to try to make us learn it.

Sweden has the best English skills as a foreign country

Theres a german poster here that said he learned English from video games

>bunch of other popular games
Even with that non, curious as to whether most English speaker in places like France and Germany are more awake to what's going on than those limited to German/French language sources.

Yes. 99% of US media sucks, but at least euros who read English can come to sites like this or antiwar.com or the few dicussion/news sites where you can here info not filtered through PC police.

also an worried about what happens to the net once obongo turns over control to the fucking UN at end of month.

I was born/raised in Italy with an American mother - who never spoke a word of English to me, but taught me Spanish (((her mother was from Madrid))), live in Netherlands (learning) and have studied French.

I learnt English through media, games, movies and tv - all of which I've always consumed in original language, then refined it travelling and accumulating experiences.

Knowledge is power, user. In America - sad to say, they teach shit-nothing about anything beyond fulfilling whatever role in society you pick. Education should not equal job training.
(I got a BA in the US - 4.0 gpa; literal child's play)

The jews have been especially hard at work in the US

I was a 6/10 english student at school. I was never too good at english.

But then 3 years of Magic the gathering happened. After that, I spent a lot of years playing multiplayer videogames, so I downloaded Teamspeak3 and started to join EU servers where you had to speak english. Also most of the content on the internet is in english so that helped too.

Started learning it in preschool when I was like 5 or something.

I still suck at speaking though.

American English is extremely varied man. You guys speak a whole lot of different dialects, all different from British English.
Though only English I don't understand when speaking are Scotts and Dindus

School, games, internet

Video Games, Learning how to make video games, Watching American shows, watching american movies.
Little to nothing at school.

It definitively change the way you look at things, for example, all my native friends think USA is some sort of holy land, however, I have been in contact with so many americans here on Sup Forums and another friends that I don't think it is such promissed land.

As for my politics, is currently moving towards natsoc.

This. Games used to have tighter knit communities and Gen X/Y kids learnt english online to communicate between lang barriers and organize games
>those feels thinking of C&C Generals

That's funny because that's I learned the (very little) German I know. Hearts of Iron and Medieval 2 mostly.

billingual preschool/school helps. plus my father worked at a book publisher based in USA and had to occasionally go there so i ended up living there for a while too.
didn't stay in school but rather practiced english when i was in America and got good eventually.
p good desu, no accent problems or anything

I learnt it playing videogames and watching movies or another stuff in english with spanish dubs. I'm not really good at english, but my level is good enough to have a conversation with a native speaker or browse Sup Forums without may difficulties.

Our school system sucks. It only teach us gramatics.

I had English classes since when I was 8. Quit the classes at around 18. Tbqh I think it didn't impact my political views. Internet was not a thing when I was child/teenager so the only media that I had access to was hue. I guess I have always being a light leftist until when I read the Portuguese version of the Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot. A few years later I began reading some articles in a Brazilian site about Mises. That cemented my hate towards commies. And finally I ended up here.

I have friends that speak English as well as me and are not red-pilled at all. Most of my English teachers were commies.

games and internet. never studied although my school teached english. fuck theory

No one understands them, even the Americans.

Also I still have trouble with some new Zealand accents, and I'm a native English speaker

I basically know Spanish but I'm never going to be anywhere near proficient in the language because I literally never get to use it. Is it even worth speaking more than one language if I know English?

I live in the south and I can't understand Cajun. I used to work with a guy from Louisiana and I could make out about every third word.

I feel like a lot of people know about Sup Forums and pol, but keep it to themselves. I keep it to myself, so why wouldn't someone else? A couple of my friends know I post on this place but they think nothing of it, or they post here too. But I wouldn't just make it known to the average person I know or meet that I browse this place. Not until I can trust them.

Speaking English instead of Irish has been a family tradition of ours for like 400 years now. A lot of people I know are the same

I'm slav and I learned English from movies, TV series, video games and stuff like that. Don't forget that American culture dominates the world so only lazy people don't even try to learn English

kek I got used to inbred speak getting hooked on that shitty show with fuckers that make duck whistles and their trashy cumbuckets

I'll give this a bump, m8. I'm fairly curious as well. Here's a doggo.

Well, I learnt it in school of course.
But for real I learnt to understand it by watching movies in English and reading lots of texts online (mostly Linux man pages).
Speaking English is still a bit rough but I can converse in most topics now since I was forced to during my PhD studies.

English Music, Movies and video games. Seriously, you couldn´t play a decent C-64/Amiga game without understanding at least a bit of english. When english lessons started during my schooldays, most german braindead farts said "hurr,what do i need english for in teh futurez" or "i´m not interested/i don´t get it at all" while i completed Betrayal at Krondor and several other masterpieces instead of doing homework

Fuck,i hate germans for beeing so learn-resistant and beeing this dense in general

Quite so, user. Knowledge is power, in more ways that may be immediately apparent.

I gradually became more rightwing (I had quite some socialist ideas around age 14-18) over time. Now I would consider myself a closed-border soft libertarian. Mostly because I realized that left wing politics and especially economics is basically just "muh feels". I would say the internet played a role in this, and my english speaking skills definetly contributed to that. Also since I'm studying engineering I will most likely profit from lower taxes and less regulations.

By not being retarded.

I definitely learnt more by online gaming an Tv shows than from school. Being from anglo-saxon countries, some start with an advantage comparing to others but eventually we all join to a point of understanding.

>for example, all my native friends think USA is some sort of holy land
This is what I'm trying to find out. So in Brazil, ost who don't speak English think the Us is some kind of great place.

For Euros, would you say the people who don't read English well are more or less cucked?

a decade ago, I'd say it was a good thing natives didn't know english so they couldn't be corrupted by our jewish propaganda.

But now that I realize literally every nation the world does their own version of pushing our Jewish propaganda,

I think English speakers would now have an advantage since they have access to shit that Euros just cannot write without risking jail.

If only there was popular media in languages other than English then we too could learn second languages for free.

We're basically teaching the world for free with videogames and hollywood.

>Example, would Germans be less cucked if all of them understood English (I know many do, but esp in rural areas, a decent number don't
I lived in a small rural german town for 3 months and everyone between 12-50 spoke english well.

They learn it at school quite young.

Example-- I speak some spanish, french, and german.
In my experience, the people who don't read English and have no alternate source of info are convinced Trump is "literally Hitler" since that's all their media shows and they cannot read any different narrative, since writing a defense of Trump in almost all Euro nations would mean loss of job/social ostracization.

That's because Cajun is a borderline retarded dialect.

They sound like deaf people learning English for the first time. Half my family is cajun and I have to hear that shit all day.

>They learn it at school quite young.
maybethings have changed in last 4 years, but when I visited small towns in the Eastern part of Germany, I could only communicate with a few i spanish, they spoke no English.

I hope you are right, bc if all Germans can read is German media, they have no way of knowing all the lies about Trump are fucking lies.

I can't even imagine how Der Spiegel is sinning Clinton's scandals and the fact that she lived in the white house for 8 years, was a senator, sec. of state, and claims with a straight face she didn't know (c) on a document means CLASSIFIED.

anyone who votes for her literally deserves to die. I just wonder how many euros even know these details if they can't read english...

well I grew up in Poland and moved here when I was 11 now I am 21(22 in a week)

I was learning German in elementary school in Poland. And at the same time my parents signed me up for English in a private school. These fuckers though I could learn 2 foreign languages at the age of 9 while still learning Polish. Kurwa ale to bylo ciezko

When I came here all it took was 3 months till I was fluently speaking.

ESL: English for Spanish Speakers.
Learned English in 2 weeks as a 5 yr old.

Back when public education was decent.

Can someone copypasta the OP and post it over again at a time when more Euros are awake?

Would be interested in their answers. If yuo could use same subject, would be helpful in searching archives..

>everything i learned fron video games.more specificaly fron WOW

most brazilians consider america to be the pineacle of humanity, without flaws because everything they learned comes directly fron the jewmedia and hollywood.

since i learned about this shithole called Sup Forums, those faggots teached me that there are bad places on us like detroid, baltimore and such

that sweden is cucked, and that the refugees are no more than people seeking profit over lax borders.

ive become more and more right wing towards NATSOC.

also its possible to see the future for our country in 4 years by looking at what is happening on france, feminist and numales are starting to appear here.
wish us look sempai fron the north

is it true most of the south of Brazil is White and some want to break off and form a new country?

You should read the comments on german media sites under Trump-bashing articles:

>Oh look, it's the daily anti Trump article
>two anti Trump articles today, someone was busy
>we can't even vote, why are you trying to push Hillary
>how about an article regarding the leaked mails
>...

The reason only Americans are posting on this thread is because it's a fucking stupid thread and Americans are just stupid enough to post in it.

most of the south of our country is white is partly because this part was conquered as an colony so that portuguese could actually live
the climate is almost the same as europe and the soil is good to cultivate wine, the rest of the country is a exploratory colony where slaves where allowed to live.

but about the possibility of breaking the country into two parts comes fron a two facts,
there are 4 major states on brazil,São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul,Santa Catarina
and those 4 states are beying forced to pay for the rest of the country in form of tax, soo they dont starve and die.

and the fact that this country is huge.

É triste ver toda galera merdaleira, nerdê assinando petição contra imposto do ps3, escutando merdal com tons meio reaça, no estilo do south park early seasons, agora tão tudo comunizados.

Também esperar o que, a cultura desses que eu mencionei e você também, é a cultura globalista/liberal idiotizante.

Antes eram um bando de retardado reaça como é essa mulekada que gosta do Nando Moura, agora são um bando de nu-male comunista lumberssexual.
They are fucking retards that can't fucking win a commie in their own rural land.

but its not happening because brazilians love brazil, we are nationalists even trought we like to say that this country is shitty.
we are heavily religious , soo its unlikely that we are going to just let the rest of the country die.

Video games, more accurately World of Warcraft. I was on a server with not many polish people so had to learn english.

Also started playing before all the quest helper bullshit so had to actually read text to understand where to go, at first I only relied on mentions of "west", "east" etc. in quest text.

Oh and it's hard for me to say how my political outlook changed because I learned at a young age when I still didn't have real political opinions.

However my friends who know less english are basically Sup Forums tier or close to anyway.

almost forgot our langs works the same way, latin is really the basis of the western language,

>art subject adjective verb

Spanish is a white language famalam, those spics and various 'cans got cucked into speaking it by the white man.

>because it's a fucking stupid thread
The level of fucking gutter level.. I think it's "jealousy" that anyone creates a topic getting attention.

Yes, it's completely "retarded" to wonder how it impacts worldview of those in other nations who don't speak English. What a dumb question to ask.

Tell you what paco-- YOU can be in charge of making threads from now on, every one? Sound good?

If you're too fucking dumb to understand why this question is impt, ignore the fucking thread. Did anyone put a gun to your head and make you post?

Or are you a degenerate who is so fucking pathetic you literally get jealous that you can't start a decent thread on a cambodian carpet weaving forum.

Jesus Christ. And no dumb fuck, Euros aren't posting bc it's 4 am there.

Or maybe because it's like 4/5AM in europe, only no life faggots like me sit in front of a computer that long

I think the Philippines’ English level has got to be one of the highest, if not the highest, in Asia. Many students learn how to speak English from a young age, foreigners come to the Philippines to learn English

Spaniards are based top tier anti savage removal forces and the language's easy to learn and sexy to speak.

I learnt it with cartoon network and mtv when I was younger, then internet. The teachers I had and their methods were kinda shitty desu.

For politics it opened me to right wing ideas since even liberals in usa are more to the right than our right wing

That's every informant portion in every culture ever not just Germans.

I'll go further..I'll say it's one of the most interesting threads I've seen here in days. Unlike the assholes here who lie about IQ, actually took the LSAT, scored a 168= 139 IQ = top .01 % of IQ in humanity, and am at a t-10 law school.
LSAT is last reliable barometer of IQ left in society, and only standardized exam accepted by MENSA.

You're too fucking stupid to understand how language and the lack of access to information in the language of the only nation with left with a modicum of free speech can impact political viewpoints, then I don't know what to do for you.

and maybe I come off as arrogant, I don't give a fuck. Any wonder YOU are only one who doesn't see why this is important? If you cannot read the de facto lingua franca of the internet, it's almost the same as not net access at all. Maybe worse, in the sense that, since most Euro nations are cucked, the only info you will get in your vernacular is bullshit jewish propaganda. At least with English, you have (a few) options.

One of those fucking idiots whose so far behind in the race of life, he thinks he's ahead when he's actually been lapped on the track 5 times.

Now go home and get your fucking shine box.

>How did most non-Anglos here learn English?

Videogames, literally it was 95% videogames (+ 5% South Park and stand-up comedy). The ones that had the most impact were.

Pokemon (first steps) > Tibia Online (reading/writing) > World of Warcraft (listening/speaking)

>Are you more red-pilled than friends who don't speak/read it as well?

American society is traditionally more conservative than most other countries Just by being able to keep up with american news you are introduced to debates that are heavily one-sided in other countries, like the right to bear arms. I wouldn't say it automatically makes you redpilled, because there are plenty of anglophone liberal bubbles on the internet, but it's a start.

There are tons of people from other countries here, you god damn REE-tard.

Games, school and private lessons when I was little. Private lessons were really popular in the 90s because capitalism n shit. Commies prefered teaching Russian hence not many old people understand burger here.

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Tangier English and southern accents are the most "English" accents. Suffolk for Tangiers and drawn out RP for Southern "plantation"
accents.
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Agree, Spanish as spoken in spain is a nice language. But it has awful political overtones here for White replacement by Mexicans since telemundo and univision now regularly beat fox in the ratings.
10 years ago, the number of illegals was" somewhere between 11 and 17 million" (and that's taken straight from morning Jew on MSNBC, not Fox).
By now? It could be 20 million, 25 million illegals. No one knows. And yes, it's scary as fuck to have a crooked cunt who si going to use every crooked trick to get this filth on the voter rolls.
If I still need ID to buy a beer, why is it absurd to ask for an ID to vote? Don't get that one. Even if they don't drive, they sure as shit have some ID to get their welfare.

I was watching LOST on german TV. Wanted to get the newest episodes and starting watching them in english with subtitles first. After that I started watching Movies and series in english only and switched my video games to english too. Then sometime I actually started skyping in english with other foreign people for my video games.

I'm glad I did that. Being able to speak english is pretty usefull and I could do it why having fun and enjoying myself.

Nowadays I spent so much on the internet and isolate myself that I think and dream in english.

Started in school, of course, but I only really got fluent after I got into Irish folk music.
To this day I sound like a Leprechaun when I'm not careful.

I certainly don't agree that USA is some kind of mecca of free speech but I agree in your point though it also applies to americans.

People who know only one language are bound to have less knowledge about the world because the only information introduced to them is by their fellow language speakers and their media.

It depends how you see it, from a practical point of view it doesn't really because everyone speaks english, but from an intellectual point of view you learn a different way of thinking and seeing thing when learning a second language, that's always interesting.

For exemple " make money " or "earn money " in english translates literaly to "win money" in french. That tells a lot I think

>what American English sounds to them

Depends, from the top of my head I can list the following american accents:

>redneck american (south)
>urban american (niggers)
>bernie american (boston)
>californian american (valleyspeak/spics)
>politician american (traditional accent I guess)

If you want me to describe what american english sounds like, I'd say it sounds movielike. Like it always fits a good speech. Clean, simple, epic. I think it's an impactful language.

British english on the other hand sounds more old-school, sophisticated, like it fits a play or an old book. Or straight drugged out m8 (chavs).

I learnt because of the internet, taught myself I guess. Education here sucked and sucks.

I learnt because of the internet, taught myself I guess. Education here sucked and sucks.

Bump. Finally a decent thread on what has recently become a shit-tastic board.

Also, how does a person learning ESL specifically navigate through idioms/idiomatic phrases? How confusing is that when so much of our daily conversation is idiomatic and not necessarily a direct one-to-one translation? Pic related.

I learned the basics in school. But working in a call center is what helped me mainly.

History class.

Your must be the cunt I talk to at BT. What's the English name they give you at work?

Well at least the Czechs are finally willing to admit that American history IS world history.

I literally know nothing of rules of english, All I've learned is simply by absorbing the language others use and because of that I know I have issues with the language, for example I have a problem using all the fucking tenses. In polish we just have present, future, and past.

playing pokemon red + ESL at 1st grade.

School for the basics, internet for the rest. My english was good because I watched a lot of movies and played a lot of games with subtitles when I was a kid, then I started watching streams at around 17 and my english skills skyrocketed.

>How did most non-Anglos here learn English?

mostly by playing vidiya without localization

>knowing English and being able to read the US/Brit news sites has impacted your political views

a little bit, knowing English made me rather more informed about latest news and events than biased

>and if so how. Are you more red-pilled than friends who don't speak/read it as well?

i think i'm more redpilled due to lack of social life,
browsing imageboards affected my political views a lot

Hi, this is Christian Jones. How may I be of help today sir?

>man pages
My Negro

In Québec, we have mandatory english classes from the beginning of elementary school all the way up to the end of high school (but desu, the teachers all suck, so you mostly need to learn it on your own). If you live in Montréal, you need to learn english to get a good job. Outside Montréal, people won't bother to learn english.

To answer the second question, the english media is by far the least transparent and most dishonest media there is. From obvious propaganda machines like AJ+ and RT, to less obvious ones like CNN and Fox. English is an international language, and is someone want something known, he'll say it in english.

No, they don't. The Netherlands does.

Reading, Internet, games basically i taught myself english i guess.

>How confusing is that when so much of our daily conversation is idiomatic and not necessarily a direct one-to-one translation?

Usually the context is enough to get the meaning, that's also the most interesting when learning a language, that's where you see the different paradigms conveyed by each language and culture

shit-ton of movies and comics from the 90s. Basically the Dead of Superman radically guided my life,education and job opportunities.

>how does a person learning ESL specifically navigate through idioms/idiomatic phrases?

lots of urban dictionary

it's just a matter of getting familiar with the language and culture, like with "jump the shark", every country/language has these and in my opinion it's the most fun part of learning a language

you'd also be surprised how many of your idioms have very similar or identical counterparts in other languages:

for instance, you say "kill two birds with one stone", in portuguese we say "kill two rabbits with a single blow (of a staff)"

I notice most foreigners here learned English via games, movies, etc., i.e., doing things that interested them and required them to speak another language to do them. Why do they even bother teaching language in schools then?

Because it's better to build the foundation of the rules of grammar than to just immerse yourself in the language.

Learned it at school when teachers weren't sjw libnuts kangs. My elementary had full white teachers and a Chinese principle.

>Why do they even bother teaching language in schools then?

It's good to establish a foundation. But if there's no personal interest in learning the language, it's an useless effort. It's something you need to pour thousands of hours into and keep in touch regularly so you can become and stay fluent.

If I had to learn another language the top two contenders would actually be spanish (for traveling) and japanese (weeb). Even if learning japanese would be much more time consuming and hold little value to business/academics, I know it's a language I could probably put thousands of hours of practice into it while enjoying myself.

I can't stress enough how important this factor is. English classes are actually mandatory in private and public schools in Brazil, yet you'd have a very hard time finding someone in the crowd who can hold a simple conversation with a foreigner. Heck, you'd have a very hard time finding someone who could read a news story in english.

>Trying to learn a relatively useless foreign language
>Duolingo, textbooks and some Youtube videos are the only resources I have
Playing translated vidya, or even watching cartoons and movies would make things much or fun. I envy countries where being bilingual is almost expected of you.

I literally learned english through Alex Jones videos when I was 15(now 23).

I think learning english is essential to have a redpilled vision of USA, the world and even my own country. It's true that most of the degeneracy also comes from America, but all that is translated and adapted to the masses of this country.

You can't believe how ridiculous is the Trump's coverage in the media and the general opinion about him. Even peole from the elite really don't have a clue about what is going on in the US

I want to apologize for all the brazilians desecrating the English language in this thread.
My english comes mostly from the internet, it is a sort of a "lingua franca" here. I'd much rather know other germanic languages tough, and thats what I'm working on, but it is not easy, since language learning is mostly passive and you need tons of exposure to the language, reading, etc, to resemble a native speaker, and even then there are many words I still don't know even in english.

*though lel

That is actually super surprising, though makes a lot of sense. I never really thought about similar idioms across cultures, but it's easy to see that since many of them refer to basic or universal concepts, there would likely be many correlations across cultures and languages. Also, I think I like your version of that particular example than ours.