[ SECRET POST #4428 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4428 ⌋

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Comments

ESL people: Why did you learn English?

[(Anonymous)]

I was watching Fullmetal Alchemist on Netflix - yes, there is a live action movie, and yes, it is as bad as it sounds - and I remembered why I decided to learn English back in 8th grade. I wanted to be able to understand porny doujinshi translated into English as I could not read Japanese.

So I went on the Internet to find some of them for nostalgia's sake. I can actually understand them now - well, except from the weird syntax but I guess that's par for the course with fan made translation. I was really surprised at how rapey they could get though.

Re: ESL people: Why did you learn English?

[malurette]

X-Men: Evolution on Cartoon Network then X-Men comics and all the fandom around them. Well I was taught some English in highschool before that but I was more interested in learning Spanish at the time; it's only two years ater graduation that suddenly I found some interest in it and got better. (Helps a lot with scientific papers, too...)

Re: ESL people: Why did you learn English?

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't really actively decide, I just started reading fanfic and most of it was in English so I just gradually got better at it. I unconsciously learned a lot about understanding words/expressions in context rather than constantly looking up every little word I didn't understand in a dictionary.

Re: ESL people: Why did you learn English?

[soldatsasha]

I moved to America.

Re: ESL people: Why did you learn English?

[(Anonymous)]

I got put in English immersion class in kindergarten. I kinda wish there'd been a dual immersion class back then because it makes me feel a little sad that I can't express myself as eloquently in my native language as I can in English.

Re: ESL people: Why did you learn English?

[(Anonymous)]

Because it's a mandatory class all through school since at least fourth grade. ( Sweden)

At least half of the media we consume is in English.

After school, I worked for an American western riding trainer so I got English that way. I much prefer reading in English and fandom culture is for the most part English or Swedish with gratuitous sprinklings of English fandom lingo.

Re: ESL people: Why did you learn English?

[dahli]

My mom wanted us to learn english from an early age so we learned. I got better by reading lots of fics, books and other stuff in english. Of course I'm not perfect and derp a lot here and there, of course. :p

Re: ESL people: Why did you learn English?

[(Anonymous)]

Isn't that movie only a couple years old? How did you get fluent so quickly?

Re: ESL people: Why did you learn English?

[type_wild]

Because it was a mandatory school subject.

I got good at English because Polgara, the Sorceress never was translated around here and I desperately wanted to read it. Then I discovered manga, which also wasn't translated around here. And then I discovered fanfic.