Posted: Dec 12, 2011 2:16 pm
I'm With Stupid wrote:1. At what age did you start to learn English?
Around the age of 13 I think.
I'm With Stupid wrote:2. What was the English teaching in your public education system like:
a) In which country?
Germany
I'm With Stupid wrote:
b) At what age did you start learning?
13, as I said.
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?
At the start, she obviously did given we were starting from scratch. It was slowly phased out, though, which was a good thing.
I'm With Stupid wrote:
d) How much spoken communication in English did you do during these lessons?
Quite a bit, although how much an individual managed to do was of course dependent on how much one participated.
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.
Nope.
I'm With Stupid wrote:4. Did you ever live abroad in a situation that required you to use English regularly?
Nope.
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 communicated a lot in English on chats, internet forums, online games and similiar stuff. It was mostly written conversation, which is'nt all that helpful if you want to improve on your pronounciation, but generally, it was great practise and I had indeed the best English marks out of all of the students who graduated with me.
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?
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.