What is life like for non-English speakers?

>>76625561
i learned it with online flash games and google translate
theres a video of how english sounds to non speakers if youre curious
look it up

>>76625561
Life was normal, i used my native language since it's the language everyone around me could understand. But i started learning english when i was around 6 years old by playing on my Nintendo 64. All text and dialogue were in english but i could grasp the basics by using a english-portuguess dictionary. Youtube also helped a lot, i can easily understand spoken english because i spent years watching english-speaking youtubers from all around the world. But i never took proper english classes, which is why I don't consider myself fluent yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4Dfa4fOEY

Try learn a new language if you really want to know what's it's like

>>76625561
isnt that brand the wrong way around
it should be horizontally flipped

>>76627485
Btw, i can understand spoken english easier than portuguese from Portugal (mostly I'm not used to their accent), english comes naturally while i have to focus to understand what someone from Portugal is saying

The coolest thing is when you can understand song lyrics. Especially if you heard it as a kid and now it's not gibberish for you

>What does English sound like to people who don't know it?

I don't even remember this. Once you start learning it, it no longer sounds like noise and you can't comment on how it sounds.

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>>76625561
>Basically as a kid I thought everyone "thinks" in English.
Same except in Finnish. I thought English speaking people see the alphabet differently and "cat" somehow becomes "kissa" in their eyes.

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>>76627491
>>76627481
It's a dumb video and if an English speaker really wants to know the answer to OP's question that video doesn't help. Just saying.

You really want to know what a language can sound like to someone who doesn't know it? Then pic very, very related.

>>76629792
The video is actually pretty accurate.

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>>76625561
>I am really passionate about video games
Stopped reading here

No but seriously at this point I'm practically bilingual so "thinking" in English is a default when I'm reading/speaking English. Then only time when I really have to translate shit in my mind is when I'm trying to get a certain structure in a sentence or a certain word (so when my vocabulary is lacking).

I learned English from Pokémon/Yugioh cards, games and the internet in general. Having English family also helped. Oh and a lot of tv shows were subbed and not dubbed back then so you were exposed to it anyway

>>76629792
I still hear english-speakers like that

>>76625561
Playing Pokémon games as kids could be a bit hard, because nobody could understand what was said, so finding HMs and overcoming blockades was mostly a matter of trial and error and whomever found a solution would share it with his friends.

Learn another language, you get so much value from it. I mostly learned from watching british and american tv-shows, and playing Warcraft III. Dubbing is completely non-existent here except for kids movies, so every tv-show that's imported is always in original language with subs, even if it's french, spanish, german or english. when you've learnt a language it's almost impossible to pinpoint what it sounds like though.

>>76625561
>what was learning English like?

I learnt by reading and watching jewtube. Although, I knew some from School.

>what was life like before you knew English?
Nothing changed but the language of the films and series I usually watch.