How did you learn English?

[Toronto]

This is for poeple that don't speak english at home

I was talking to a friend that I know from the internet, and he says that he picked it up watching movies and listening to music.

so I was just woundering how you learned it?

School
Internet
TV/Movies
Music
Friends/Family...

..... or altavista is my best friend

[TT]

Well, 2 years in school.. then the net, books, movies, the usual stuff :D

[bmwmpower]

school, TV- but we had only BBC, then net and movies,
but im only average,
i think Net is best way, and of course forums

[Chaos in 1983!]

Well I picked up english from friends and TV actually...I speak quite well IMO and I also write good...I had English back in school, but it wasn't really that good...

[komotar]

tv.

English and German.

[sameerrao]

School for me...

[DeMoN]

school since pre kinder. That is like 14 years? yeah something like that.

[EnzoLover]

I learn at school, internet videos :D

and JabbasWorld :D

[360modena]

I've learnt english at school, with music and internet but I didn't pratice for
about 5 years. I started again with JW that is a very interesting way to
improve it, but sometime frustrating cause I'm not sure everybody
understand messages I post. I've learnt lot's of important for a classic
conversation new words like "holly cr.." or "It pi.. me off", thanks for it
Badmihai :D

[BADMIHAI]

Me no English.

[Fleischmann]

When I was 4 and a half years old I moved with my parents and bro to London as my dad got a well paid job offer and life was much easier there compared to the harsh early 90's in Poland. I spent 6,5 years in London, i finished primary school, my dad's contract expired and we had to return. Kinda sucks...British people have a way better sense of humour then the people around here :( ;)

Now I learn English 3 times a week at school and also at Jabbas World :D

[m3mys3lf4ndi]

Me no English.

I too.

[GT-R_R34]

still taking ESL j/k
ESL english as a second language

[antonioledesma]

learned my first words in... kindergarten, you know the basic: gallina-hen, pollito-chicken
then in my school i had one year of 90% classes in english, so I only had one hour per week of spanish
then 4 hours of english each day at school
after elementary, in high school my english level dropped a lot because I only had 2 or 3 hours a week of dissapointing lessons

and now I'm still learning, and from a year to now I'm trying to remember basic stuff, all because Im in JW

[e46drew]

Reading all of your posts in this thread is kind of an eye opener. I don't think that I would have the time or patience to learn another language. Good show, gents. :wink:

[oscargarza88]

well i learned it in a almost 100% english school when they moved all of us to spain wehen i was like 5 till like 10. my brother and i got soo used to speaking english that wven when we moved back to mexico we talked to us in englisn in mexico!
but i lost english in mexico, i still remmember much fortunatelly, and well every day more since i am now in houston, so i didnt learn english like studing, it was like natural 4 me. im learning german but it is hard... i think i have to go to germany...
btw does someone know like a place i could go just for a semester and then people here validating my studiing and giving me credits?

[BADMIHAI]

new words like "holly cr.." or "It pi.. me off", thanks for it
Badmihai


Don't exacerbate the situation. My language is filthy enough and there is no need for encouragement. Please don't be a ruttish fool-born clack-dish. :wink: :mrgreen:

[BADMIHAI]

Later got some friends who speak english, so it helps speaking it.


Who are you kidding? We all know you don't have any friends. :wink:

Shit...I should really stop posting when really tired.

[BADMIHAI]

Any suggestions?


Log off Jabbasworld. :|

[possessed_beaver]

learned english.. only lanuage i can speak..

and i can't speak it well, :D :D

i rely want to learn german, but im not sure where to start on my quest to learn another lanuage.

[dingo]

Watching english porn movies... :mrgreen:

j/K



LOL...so you are limited to a few words describing the human body and differents moans and groans :D

[findleybeast]

This is for poeple that don't speak english at home

que?

[saadie]

fer me .. its movies .. songs ... and alot of foreigners

[Wutputt]

I first learned the basics at school but improved it with TV (BBC Top Gear, the old version) and movies.

[SFDMALEX]

Lets see. Ever since I can remeber we had sattelite TV. At the time my dad didnt have a motor to rotate the dish so it was always pointing at the Astra satellite. Which was 18 chanels I think, 15 or so of them in German, I didnt pick up German though :lol: So before I even went to school I knew german from watching Cartoon Netowork which was in english. So I was growing up, to Ukrainia, Russian, Polish and English TV. And I know all 4 four langauges fluenty. Excpet polish. I cant speak it.

And my dad was getting english movies all the time for the VCR(he risked being arrested my the USSR government at the time, because of that) and my dad knew english from school...

And then in Ukraine english is mendatory from grade 1 to grade 11(now 12) :wink:


So here we go. I grew up to English TV, took it in school, and moved to Canada. :D

[philios55]

As the most here, i learn my english from school, magazines, movies
and mostly Ayia Napa the Tourist Resort in Cyprus(homecountry) where we used to talk english with the tourist and especially the tourist ladies!!!