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11-24-2003, 07:54 PM
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Location: Canada
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Where did you learn English?
After taking a look at the members locations it's obvious that English isn't a native language for 70 or so per cent of us. I just want to know were did you learn it?
My family had satellite TV for as long as I remember. I think my dad installed the first dish in 1990. There werent many chanels though. 18 I think. I was watching Cartoon Network 24/7 because rest of the chanells were in German. I remeber Deutsche Welle, and some others. Plus English is mendatory in Ukrainian shcools, so I picked it up from there. Now I live in Canada, so I have to speak it on daily basis.
Whats your story?
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11-24-2003, 07:57 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Lugano, Switzerland
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Uhm.. in school I did maybe 3 or 4 years of English... all the rest came to me thanks to the fact I surf the net and never visits sites in my native language LOL 
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11-24-2003, 08:07 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Utrecht, Netherlands
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In Holland English is given pretty well at school. Plus after my exams I went to Australia for half a year so that sure helped a lot. But I guess where I picked English is from the television and songs. A lot of programs are in English and have dutch subtitles. That's my story...
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11-24-2003, 08:18 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Santiago, Chile
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i still havent learn it 
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11-24-2003, 11:09 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Managua, Nicaragua
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I guess I picked it up from TV and friends...English in schools here isn't that good....
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11-24-2003, 11:11 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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I used to study English in Hong Kong. Then I went to Canada couples years ago. My English isn't improving much though 
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11-24-2003, 11:33 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Lat: -31 56.84 505 Long. 116.00.09 5 Australia
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im just a pro at english!!!
hahahah cuz evreyone in australia speaks it, i can count to 20 in italian!!!
and i know some lyrics to rammstein songs!!
but i do wish i could speak another lanuage.
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11-24-2003, 11:35 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Abilene, TX USA
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i learned when i moved to California.
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11-24-2003, 11:39 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Ontario, Canada
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I learned it from Cartoon network...from my family and in school.
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11-25-2003, 12:55 AM
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Location: Sydney, Australia
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errmm...in australia haha
i was born here but thankfully i still know how to speak chinese.
i know how to count german. or simple stuff like
wie geht's?
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11-25-2003, 01:26 AM
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Location: Florida
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Studied in an english-speaking school. When I was a kid, there was only one school that taught all the clases in english and my parents sent me there. So here I am, studying in the us and knowing english better than my motherlanguage.
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11-25-2003, 06:51 AM
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Location: victoria, Australia
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my paretns speak english, i live in an english speaking country its my first language
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11-25-2003, 07:07 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Sardegna - Italy
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5 years of english at school, but I'm improving a lot in those last 2 years because I try to understand lyrics, I went to JW so I have to speak english, I read all the articles in the net about the cars ( in fact I don't even look for Italian articles, in Italy even if we have Ferrari, Lamborghini, Pagani, Alfa Romeo, Maserati the interest of the media for cars is sub zero).
And of couse watching JC and Tiff is a good training!
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11-25-2003, 07:10 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Hellevoetsluis, the Netherlands
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Working in a business environment where English was the Lingua Franca and watching auntie Beeb since the early eighties.
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11-25-2003, 07:50 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: BOOM shakalaka
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i wanna learn japanese
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