I’m learning Portuguese rn and the middle one is real
Hurts my heart but I learned English on reddit, I had good school English and had to learn words early for playing full English games but it’s on reddit I learned how to speak it instead of just reading it without answering
I learned it from these guys.
School gave me a serious boost in grammar. It would have taken me ages otherwise. That said, the majority of my vocabulary is still from games. I might still not know how to call that rolling painting brush thing but I know at least 10 words for different kinds of swords. You can never know.
I might still not know how to call that rolling painting brush thing
Oh, boy. You’re not gonna believe this.
Ahhahaha, I had the feeling it was some combination of some of those words, but wouldn’t have bet more than 20p on my guess.
Book goes brrrrrrr
That’s gotta be tough, learning entirely through written words without a verbal component.
Entirely: yes, I was given a good start by school, games, and programming but I really wanted to finish bleach. I ran out of my native language dubbing, so I watched with subtitles english dubbing, then just japanese dubbing with English subtitles, and I wanted to finish it leaving me with only manga in English. This again happened with Honzuki no Gekokujo and I just kept on reading and reading and reading to this day. I remember often using a dictionary on my phone during that time. Passion is the strongest force for learning, though my vocal skills stagnated until I made international online friends
I have to say, you’re incredibly impressive to have come as far as you have. And you took a unreproducible passion path completely unique to yourself.
I wish my special interests as a kid were anywhere near as useful for myself as yours turned out to be for you
I learned English though movie piracy.
watching on tv or through legal means would be translated to my local language, but thanks to piracy, I got all my media in English and learned through it.
That’s pretty fascinating if true.
Don’t hear people talk about languages “spawning in their head”
happened to me the first time I ate a whole bag of “definitely only CBD in here wink wink” gummies
Learned it from PlayStation X games
Programming for me. Those textbooks are rarely translated well.
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I learnt it on my Reddit user era.
I got my basics in school (grammatics, times, structure of sentences) and beginning of university. Sadly never understood articles. The rest is games and some series, then also reddit and youtube (and general internet troubleshooting for anything). Yeah.
Colonization and Michael Jackson
Ordering food at a restaurant.
There’s also the .001% people like me and my dad that are hyperlexic and taught ourselves.
