Posted: Dec 15, 2011 11:11 am
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?
a: Czech Rep* Never studied English, but Russian and some German
b: 20
c: NA* No
d: NA* since my lessons were from TV, job, books, papers, flatmates I'd guess majority
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?
Essentially self-learner, or rather child-learner .. hear or see something, not in class but in environment, and repeat it like a monkey.