Dear people that speak English as a 2nd language, How did you

>>69213916
Through school and private education
Not very fluent in english(b1)

>>69213916
I learned English solely from reading, like 99% of Sweden's English-speaking population.

Everyone who tries to use Sweden's relatively high proficiency in English as a way to glorify it's educational system should cut their jugular veins.

>How did you learn English?
Videogames helped a bit when I was a kid, but what really made me learn English was the Internet. I was unfortunate enough to discover 4chan at the age of 13 and haven't been able to leave since.
>Through school?
At first, but after starting to learn on my own I was way ahead of what we were studying in school.
>How long did it take to become fluent?
A few years I guess.
>Do you use it much in your daily life?
Only on the Internet.

>>69213916
school, the internet and vidya
i never had to actually speak english out loud (or never cared to do so) until later in highschool and by that point i was already fluent enough
i use it quite a lot since im an autistic fuck and 4chan is my biggest source of social interaction
it never really felt particularly hard, but i guess writing and using tenses properly is what ive struggled with the most

>>69213984
lol sven calm your tits

>>69213916
The internet
I learned 99% of my english through the internet, the school might have helped with the advanced grammar

It's ridiculous how important immersion is. My understanding of the language is about equal to a native, though I do lack in vocabulary.

I've learned languages almost purely by stalking their language-specific threads on /int/.

>>69214306
Prove it

>>69213916
Right here.
I can understand written English but can't speak it at all.
Been to the U.S. once and I was literally an autist during my trip.

Anglo media, basically. Music, games, movies, shitposting, you name it.

Suddenly I knew english. Got almost a perfect score on TOEFL and after that went to a exchange program in the US, studying there (STEM) for a year.
I'm not so sure about how long I took to write it "fluidly", I'd say it was a slow process that lasted my teenage years.

Learning a language is also an emotional thing. If you're really, REALLY interested on the subject you're paying attention to, like tv shows or a game, you'll eventually learn that language.

The basic stuff on school gave me a foothold, but I didn't care about other languages. Then the internatz, vidya, and a few novels I couldn't find in Spanish made my interest on it grow.
At that point I learned more english in a year than I had on something like 10 of mandatory school english.
Not particulary hard, few exceptions here and there, but the pronunciation of some stuff is outright retarded. I use it exclusively on the internet to interact with foreigners and that's it actually.
Knowing a new language is like discovering there's another room on what you thought was a single room house. Might have something to do with me also studying logic, fallacies and rethoric at the time, but it also helped me to be more rational.

Vidya

i learned with memes and shitposting in 4chan

>>69213984
>it's

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>How did you learn English?
Mainly vidya and internet. Movies and music of course helped.
>Through school?
I was in an English speaking kindergarten between ages 3-6, which I assume helped a lot. After that I was always ahead of the class.
>How long did it take to become fluent?
I don't know really, maybe a bit over decade of osmosis? I have never really ""studied"" English but instead have just learned it along the way while playing vidya or reading something online.
>What was hard about it?
Your pronunciation is fucked up. Finnish is very logical and straightforward since you pronounce all the letters, with a couple of exceptions, the same way in every word (one exception would be the -ng sound in words like plural of kenkä (kengät), which means shoe/shoes, or sänky (sängyt), bed/beds), meaning that even if person has never seen a particular word in Finnish they can still pronounce it correctly without issues, which again is not the case in English.
>Do you use it much in your daily life?
Yes, probably more than Finnish. Then again I hardly interact with people in real life.

>>69213916
>How did you learn English? Through school?

Yes, I had english classes since I can remember. I started using it for real in the internet.

>How long did it take to become fluent?
I don't think I'm fluent enough.

>Do you use it much in your daily life?
Only in internet

I learned English while playing games.

>>69213916
I think everyone here agrees on:

>Grammar
school
>The important stuff
Internet/Games

>>69213916
School, and then movies/videogames/internet.

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>>69214549
>I hardly interact with people in real life.

>>69213916
Pokemon

>>69213916
Private education, there are English courses/ schools to teach the language.
By following its method I needed 5 years to finish it

>>69213984
use /int/, get extreme.

this is the type of person i want to avoid in life forever.

Was bretty good at it in school, but for some time after it was unconfident and lazy to actually use it. At first i only looked for lyrics of favorite songs and tried to understand something. At uni i gained a habit of looking up every unfamiliar word that i stumble upon in translator, then tried to do it while reading, started watching cartoons, reading wiki, and not too long ago noticed that I started thinking in it without notice. I seriously took on learning around 2 years ago. Listening comprehension varies by source, the best that I can reach is around 70% of tv speech, in case of coversational speed, also the british accent is still a huge hurdle. Another hard thing is lack of commas in punctuation compared to russian, so that I have to brood on some sentences to grasp its construction well.

>>69214814
Was it worth it? It feels like anyone could learn english by themselves, considering the massive anglo media we consume.

>>69213916
Jap school class is a shit.
I acquired a proper pronunciation by myself not to recall the hideous sound the jap teachers had uttered, and read Wikipedia and 4ch posts.
What I found a bit difficult was English language often uses a same word for multiple classes(verb, noun, adjective...), like "head", "station" and "name", that never happens in my language.
I don't use it in my life now. but I wish to someday.

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Like every other Finn born in the late 90's, Runescape.

>>69214901
I'm too intelligent to learn a language by myself mate.
If left alone I simply wouldn't find the motivation to study it everyday like it should be and also lack a lot of discipline. Having to go to a course creates an obligation and a routine to follow. Also, having a teacher gives you a few shortcuts like correcting your pronunciation from the very beginning and can more accurately indicate media of your current level to consume. It worked for me, so I don't really care what could have been

>>69213916

My kindergarten offered English classes and my parents enrolled me at age 3. That laid the groundwork, Cartoon Network, 80's action movies and Windows 98 did the rest. I was completely fluent by the age of 11.

>>69213916
That's so raven and Cory in the house.

>>69220154
>Cory in the house
Is this true, or are you just memeing?

I would say I learned the basics in school, everything after that is mostly from the internet

>>69213916
School taught in English
Not long I guess
Don't remember
I speak more English than anything else 2bh

>>69213916
school and when I started watching english stuff, I think Fight Club was the first movie that I ever watched completely in english