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I'm With Stupid wrote:1. At what age did you start to learn English?
2. What was the English teaching in your public education system like:
a) In which country?
b) At what age did you start learning?
c) Did your teacher speak your native language during lessons? If so, what for, and do you think it was beneficial?
d) How much spoken communication in English did you do during these lessons?
3. Did you supplement this with private tuition/study in a private language centre? If so, same a) b) c) & d) questions again.
4. Did you ever live abroad in a situation that required you to use English regularly?
5. Other than living abroad, how often did you get to communicate in English? And what form did these communications take?
6. How often did you consume English-language media, and did you do so with a conscious effort to study/understand it?
I know by definition, I'm only going to get answers from people that had a fairly successful experience learning English, but I'm more interested in what works anyway.
12-13I'm With Stupid wrote:1. At what age did you start to learn English?
2. What was the English teaching in your public education system like:
a) In which country?
b) At what age did you start learning?
c) Did your teacher speak your native language during lessons? If so, what for, and do you think it was beneficial?
d) How much spoken communication in English did you do during these lessons?
No3. Did you supplement this with private tuition/study in a private language centre? If so, same a) b) c) & d) questions again.
No4. Did you ever live abroad in a situation that required you to use English regularly?
Quite often. Have had a relationship with a girl from Glasgow for some time. The conversations ...5. Other than living abroad, how often did you get to communicate in English? And what form did these communications take?
Most of the media I 'consume' is English spoken. I didn't choose the media in order to learn English.6. How often did you consume English-language media, and did you do so with a conscious effort to study/understand it?
I'm With Stupid wrote:1. At what age did you start to learn English?
I'm With Stupid wrote:2. What was the English teaching in your public education system like:
a) In which country?
I'm With Stupid wrote:
b) At what age did you start learning?
I'm With Stupid wrote:
c) Did your teacher speak your native language during lessons? If so, what for, and do you think it was beneficial?
I'm With Stupid wrote:
d) How much spoken communication in English did you do during these lessons?
I'm With Stupid wrote:3. Did you supplement this with private tuition/study in a private language centre? If so, same a) b) c) & d) questions again.
I'm With Stupid wrote:4. Did you ever live abroad in a situation that required you to use English regularly?
I'm With Stupid wrote:5. Other than living abroad, how often did you get to communicate in English? And what form did these communications take?
I'm With Stupid wrote:6. How often did you consume English-language media, and did you do so with a conscious effort to study/understand it?
Scar wrote:
Even today, I try to get my hands on English versions of books, movies, TV shows and games whenever I can, mostly because I enjoy the language, less as some sort of study.
At what age did you start to learn English?
In which country?
Did your teacher speak your native language during lessons? If so, what for, and do you think it was beneficial?
How much spoken communication in English did you do during these lessons?
Did you supplement this with private tuition/study in a private language centre?
Did you ever live abroad in a situation that required you to use English regularly?
Other than living abroad, how often did you get to communicate in English? And what form did these communications take?
How often did you consume English-language media, and did you do so with a conscious effort to study/understand it?
AE wrote:“The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can change this.”
I'm With Stupid wrote:1. At what age did you start to learn English?
I'm With Stupid wrote:2. What was the English teaching in your public education system like:
a) In which country?
I'm With Stupid wrote:b) At what age did you start learning?
I'm With Stupid wrote:c) Did your teacher speak your native language during lessons? If so, what for, and do you think it was beneficial?
d) How much spoken communication in English did you do during these lessons?
I'm With Stupid wrote:3. Did you supplement this with private tuition/study in a private language centre? If so, same a) b) c) & d) questions again.
I'm With Stupid wrote:4. Did you ever live abroad in a situation that required you to use English regularly
I'm With Stupid wrote:5. Other than living abroad, how often did you get to communicate in English? And what form did these communications take?
I'm With Stupid wrote:6. How often did you consume English-language media, and did you do so with a conscious effort to study/understand it?
20I'm With Stupid wrote:1. At what age did you start to learn English?
2. What was the English teaching in your public education system like:
a) In which country?
b) At what age did you start learning?
c) Did your teacher speak your native language during lessons? If so, what for, and do you think it was beneficial?
d) How much spoken communication in English did you do during these lessons?
No3. Did you supplement this with private tuition/study in a private language centre? If so, same a) b) c) & d) questions again.
Yes4. Did you ever live abroad in a situation that required you to use English regularly?
Since around 1995 on the Internet relatively often.5. Other than living abroad, how often did you get to communicate in English? And what form did these communications take?
At the time in question 100%, now around 50% of all media and No.6. How often did you consume English-language media, and did you do so with a conscious effort to study/understand it?
Fourth grade, so eleven years old. Really I started learning from Super channel and Sky channel around 5-6, and learned from films as well. I had an American accent in school.I'm With Stupid wrote:1. At what age did you start to learn English?
2. What was the English teaching in your public education system like:
a) In which country?
b) At what age did you start learning?
c) Did your teacher speak your native language during lessons? If so, what for, and do you think it was beneficial?
d) How much spoken communication in English did you do during these lessons?
No3. Did you supplement this with private tuition/study in a private language centre? If so, same a) b) c) & d) questions again.
No4. Did you ever live abroad in a situation that required you to use English regularly?
I used it when on holiday, but that wasn't often as we usually ended up in Denmark(no need for English there). A bit of online gaming where I learned that gay is a popular word. My English has deteriorated quite a bit over the years (don't even get me started on my German).5. Other than living abroad, how often did you get to communicate in English? And what form did these communications take?
Most of the media I consumed was English spoken. I didn't use subtitles when watching films/series, and some of the books I read was written in English. I used to be an avid reader.6. How often did you consume English-language media, and did you do so with a conscious effort to study/understand it?
jamest wrote:Scar wrote:
Even today, I try to get my hands on English versions of books, movies, TV shows and games whenever I can, mostly because I enjoy the language, less as some sort of study.
Hi Scar. I kinda stumbled upon this conversation and was wondering why you (or anyone) would enjoy the English language (or enjoy any other language, for that matter)? What is there to 'enjoy'?
I'm With Stupid wrote:1. At what age did you start to learn English?
2. What was the English teaching in your public education system like:
a) In which country?
b) At what age did you start learning?
c) Did your teacher speak your native language during lessons? If so, what for, and do you think it was beneficial?
d) How much spoken communication in English did you do during these lessons?
3. Did you supplement this with private tuition/study in a private language centre? If so, same a) b) c) & d) questions again.
4. Did you ever live abroad in a situation that required you to use English regularly?
5. Other than living abroad, how often did you get to communicate in English? And what form did these communications take?
6. How often did you consume English-language media, and did you do so with a conscious effort to study/understand it?
Garm wrote:I especially hate it when character names are translated, because then they always sound so uncool.
Garm wrote:From reading expat blogs I've learned that Dutch is not exactly considered a 'sexy' language abroad.
I'm With Stupid wrote:
1. At what age did you start to learn English?
I'm With Stupid wrote:2. What was the English teaching in your public education system like:
a) In which country?
I'm With Stupid wrote:b) At what age did you start learning?
I'm With Stupid wrote:c) Did your teacher speak your native language during lessons? If so, what for, and do you think it was beneficial?
I'm With Stupid wrote:d) How much spoken communication in English did you do during these lessons?
I'm With Stupid wrote:3. Did you supplement this with private tuition/study in a private language centre? If so, same a) b) c) & d) questions again.
I'm With Stupid wrote:4. Did you ever live abroad in a situation that required you to use English regularly?
I'm With Stupid wrote:5. Other than living abroad, how often did you get to communicate in English? And what form did these communications take?
I'm With Stupid wrote:6. How often did you consume English-language media, and did you do so with a conscious effort to study/understand it?
I'm With Stupid wrote:Garm wrote:I especially hate it when character names are translated, because then they always sound so uncool.
Antonio Banderas = Tony FlagsGarm wrote:From reading expat blogs I've learned that Dutch is not exactly considered a 'sexy' language abroad.
Maybe, but English in a Dutch accent is very scheschy.
I'm With Stupid wrote:Antonio Banderas = Tony Flags
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