For the ESLs of /lit/, how did you learn English? Did you read a lot of books or was it through other methods.
>>25348600Arguing with EFLs about how bad their language is. At a certain point I realized that I had become better than them all at their own language.
Am I considered ESL if I started learning English when I was 2 years old?
>>25348618No, you're practically Nabokov.
My parents took me to an English academy, where a mormon woman taught me and tried to sign me up for some mormon bullshit. The academy was quite good though.
>>25348600I just listened to music, played vidya and watched movies and videos until one day it clicked
>>25348609EFL means English as a Foreign Language Better get back to practicing
>>25348600as a kid played video games, wrote to and spoke with other players and watched videoslater on started reading books and learned the vocabulary needed for them
Why do ESLs prefer emulating native disregard for language rules such as punctuation and capitalization in lieu of proper language formating?
>>25348762>why do ESLs want to sound native?what kind of question is this?
I had a girlfriend in a long distance relationship for 3 years,she lived in Philly (i've been there, Scranton and New-York,3 weeks in USA). Still have a really bad grammar/pronunciation but English native speaker don't give a fuck as long as you're "understandable". Also lot of people pretend they can understand English but in real life hearing real people is different,i don't struggle with that so it's all good. Last time i heard someone from somewhere in England and the accent was new to me i thought they were talking welsh or something,i made them laugh saying " you've got a thick accent" coming from a french i guess it's funny lolI prefer the american way to talk like pronuncing th like d,easier for me.Can't understand Glasgow accent actually but so far i've never struggled when talking to people except on some cases because i also lack vocabulary that brits have (i told you i learnt my english with an american girl).So far my english is good enough i know i could go in British islands/Usa/Australia and i wouldn't struggle.
>>25348600Not ESL, but my father is. He learned English by immersing himself completely: he grew up around children who spoke English, he listened to the radio and watched movies in English, and read English books.Learning like a child is how you learn any language. Input and output.
>>25348600I was sent to private English courses since I was 11 and I have seen obscene amounts of english language films.
>>25348794Yeah nigger. Why do people want to write like natives instead of correctly?Dumb fucking ESL can't even answer a simple question
>>25349390nta but I don't want my posting style to stand out. I mix other shit in like "youre", "thats" as well. The more I want to sound American the more I type like a retard
>>25348600My parents enrolled me in English class when I was 5. They were at the public library (though they weren't free), so they were pretty bad. At 9 they enrolled me in an actual good academy, with English teachers, two hours a week. That was were I learned my actual basis for English, though the listening part was mostly thanks to YouTube and watching series and movies in their original language.At school (from 5 to 17) we also had around three to four hours weekly of English, but they were never very useful, since the teachers aren't native and they have to account for the slowest/dumbest kids too, which aren't enrolled in an academy.I have a couple of actual classic novels in English, but I still haven't read them, but I'd say around 90% of the time I spend on the Internet it's in English.We also were teached French as a second foreign language from 13 to 17. I was surprised by how much I actually learned, specially in regards to conjugation, but I've never delved further into it. I probably should.
>>25348600Lessons, games and internet
>>25348600Growing up, me and my older brother were really into wrestling and it just snowballed from there. English filesharing websites, forums, friends on ICQ or Vent, etc. Then online games, 4chan, music, tv... Reading came a bit later, I used to read English works in my native language.
>>25348600Played videogames during the ps2 era then browsed 4chan. I still don't write as a native but can understand you all and communicate some basic ideas.
>>25349390Because people kept telling me it looks autistic.
>>25348600Primarily schoolSecondly, mostly consuming English media since 9th gradeThirdly, talking to and debating incel autists on the internet.
>>25349788>That was were
>>25348600What is it about that specific type of face that I find so extremely repulsive? It looks like a mix of human and dog, but I usually don't care about furries one way or another. It's only that shape. I've seen some comic with similar creatures and it was disgusting.
Playing MMORPGs as a kid and listening to a lot of music. Still only read classics in my native language. English is for the thrillers/spy novels i read, and non fiction too. C1 level via tbe Cambridge online test.
>>25348600What I'm gathering from this thread is that most bilingual anons learned English when they were like 5 or something, by complete accident and without effort, and they have the gall to brag about being bilingual to native English speakers.Shame on you, europoors >:(
>>25350326The US military is allowing people under the age of 18 to join now too? Iran must have truly done a number on the jewish trading empire. Sad!
>>25348600Playing Neverwinter Nights, watching PewDiePie's PUBG videos, listening to emo trap, reading GRRM novels' extracts while waiting for the copy in Italian to arrive.I read my first book in English when I was 18 and it was picrel. You can guess what board I was browsing at that time.
>>25348609>I had become better than them all at their own languageBack to the call center diksheet
I will never understand why exactly are ESL a thing as in, problem-thing, thing worth naming/talking about. It's painfully weird. Is it a 4chan meme I'm too new to get?
>>25349969Shit, I assure you that I don't usually make mistakes as retarded as that one. But I'm glad for the correction, I'd say in fact writing/redacting would be the part where I would need more improvement, since you don't usually get corrected when talking on English on the Internet. (The segments of an English exam are usually Writing, Listening, Speaking and Use of English [mostly miscellaneous stuff, like knowing your grammar and phrasal verbs])
>>25348600I got fed up with having to wait between 6/12 months for the TV shows I was following to be released in French, so I started watching them in English with broken fanmade subtitles.It all snowballed from there.
>>25348600School. Simple as that.
>>25351835At least you get better dubs
>>25348629Why'd you say no
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>>25348600Bideogames, movies and mangas translated to english.
