Posted: Dec 12, 2011 2:11 pm
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?
a: Belgium
b: 12-13
c: The first two years, yes. Afterwards, no.
Was it beneficial: to clarify the grammatical rules, it's better not to rely on the limited vocabulary of students that are only 1-2 years into studying the language. So yes, I think it is, certainly in the beginning.
d: not enough. I'd say about 1 hour in the total of 3 hours a week, on average.
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?
Can't remember. 
Now, my conversation at work are in English, by default.
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?