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AkumaTakeshi · 06-21-2011, 11:53 AM

From what I've seen here at MobileRead, many people have English as their second language instead of being native English speakers.

So I thought it would be fun to actually know how you've learned English, was it through school or through some other way? So let's get this started...

I learned most of the English I know today from playing console RPGs, later I started to watch movies without subtitles (they annoy me most of the time because of some bad translations). Reading stuff on the internet helped it too. School didn't had that much impact on my learning, maybe learning some rules and vocabulary but nothing more.

Well I know my English is far from perfect, I still need to check some word from time to time but that enhances my vocabulary and I know I make some mistakes or change the order a particular sentence it's supposed to be. Maybe I've done that in this very post but as a second language I think it's a bit satisfactory

So there it is, share your experience too, hope some folks join me. I'm curious to see if I'm an odd ball to have learned the way I learned.

This thread is aimed at those said people but if some native English speakers want to share an opinion or talk about their experience with other languages that's perfectly fine. And if someone wants to correct me please fell free to do so, I'll even appreciate it if you do so, learning is always good ^^

P.S.: I don't believe I actually misplaced "as" for "an" in the thread title, worst is that I only noticed it after posting. *EDIT* hum it showed "an" before, was a glitch or did someone edit it for me? If so thank you

06-21-2011, 11:53 AM	#1
AkumaTakeshi Lounge Lurker Posts: 669 Karma: 1635154 Join Date: May 2011 Location: Portugal Device: Kindle 3 Wifi (Screen Broken)	English as second language? From what I've seen here at MobileRead, many people have English as their second language instead of being native English speakers. So I thought it would be fun to actually know how you've learned English, was it through school or through some other way? So let's get this started... I learned most of the English I know today from playing console RPGs, later I started to watch movies without subtitles (they annoy me most of the time because of some bad translations). Reading stuff on the internet helped it too. School didn't had that much impact on my learning, maybe learning some rules and vocabulary but nothing more. Well I know my English is far from perfect, I still need to check some word from time to time but that enhances my vocabulary and I know I make some mistakes or change the order a particular sentence it's supposed to be. Maybe I've done that in this very post but as a second language I think it's a bit satisfactory So there it is, share your experience too, hope some folks join me. I'm curious to see if I'm an odd ball to have learned the way I learned. This thread is aimed at those said people but if some native English speakers want to share an opinion or talk about their experience with other languages that's perfectly fine. And if someone wants to correct me please fell free to do so, I'll even appreciate it if you do so, learning is always good ^^ P.S.: I don't believe I actually misplaced "as" for "an" in the thread title, worst is that I only noticed it after posting. EDIT hum it showed "an" before, was a glitch or did someone edit it for me? If so thank you Last edited by AkumaTakeshi; 06-21-2011 at 02:32 PM.