Sukhoi From Sweden, joined May 2006, 371 posts, RR: 8 Posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 1 day ago) and read 3229 times:
Hi Everyone!
I started to learn English when I was ten and I really hated it! Me and my father went on a road trip to Germany, Belgium, Holland, France and Great Britain in 1990 when I was twelve at one gas station in GB I had to go to the toilet and you had to ask for the key very embarrassing I asked "Key, toilet!".
We where camping outside London and I wanted to buy some stuff behind the desk and I could not speak English so I just went behind the desk an grabbed the things I wanted!
And now I have travelled a lot around the world and my English is great and I speak English every day at my work at ARN airport. I have learned Spanish aswell! what about you?
Legoguy From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2006, 3301 posts, RR: 44 Reply 2, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 1 day ago) and read 3211 times:
I learnt english when I was 3 because I'm english.lol. Honestly though, I would love to be able to speak to languages fluently! I did learn abit of Irish, German, and French at school, but I can't remember any of it now. I need to reserve brain space for other things now!
Can you say 'Beer Can' without sounding like a Jamaican saying 'Bacon'?
Jetmatt777 From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 2661 posts, RR: 36 Reply 3, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 23 hours ago) and read 3203 times:
I learned my first word when I was like 1 1/2 it was dada and mama. then I started to learn more words in kindergarden like Legoguy.
HBDAN From Switzerland, joined Jan 2006, 661 posts, RR: 4 Reply 8, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 23 hours ago) and read 3158 times:
I started english courses at school when I was 13. However I had the chance to stay 2 months in Cambridge UK and 2 months in Perth... and a month in an english speaking country is better than 10 years at school!
Also use it every single day at work!
DAL767400ER From Germany, joined Feb 2005, 5721 posts, RR: 50 Reply 10, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 22 hours ago) and read 3143 times:
Started to "learn" English from age 2 on, thanks to my parents taking me with them to the US on a regular basis. School English was mostly just rehearsing what I had already learned .
Fly727 From Mexico, joined Jul 2003, 1788 posts, RR: 23 Reply 11, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 3101 times:
During the 4th grade on Elementary School and then again in highschool. Every single year, whether because I changed schools or new teachers got hired I got stuck with like 5 years working on the verb to BE.
I am, you are, he is, she is, it is, we are, you are, they are...
My pronunciation improved a lot watching sitcoms with the close-caption feature and talking to tourists in Cancun where I used to live. Finally, I lived in Texas for some time,
Y'all have a good one!
RM
There are no stupid questions... just stupid people!
MD11junkie From Argentina, joined May 2005, 3091 posts, RR: 60 Reply 13, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 17 hours ago) and read 3086 times:
Started when I was in Pre-school - I was 4. All the way up, till graduation, I was in an intense 8-hr a day english-speaking environment. Our school was british, our teachers were too.
Also, thanks to my TV for providing endless hours of sitcoms and drama series like Commander in Chief, Will and Grace, One Tree Hill, etc.
I think the TV helped me improve my understanding of the culture which takes someone to improve the language that they are speaking, when not native.
Cheers!
Gastón - The MD11junkie
There is no such thing as Boeing vs Airbus as the queen of the skies has three engines, winglets and the sweetest nose!
Carmenlu15 From Guatemala, joined Dec 2004, 4686 posts, RR: 35 Reply 14, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 16 hours ago) and read 3070 times:
Just like Gastón, I started in preschool (only I was 3 ). Half of my classes were in English, so I was talking rather fluently by the time I finished 6th grade.
After graduating from high school, I decided to continue my language studies and enrolled in an English - Spanish translation program. I'm not studying English at the moment, but I deal with it every day at work; that helps me keep up with my skills.
SW733 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 6072 posts, RR: 10 Reply 15, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 16 hours ago) and read 3068 times:
Namibia, while it has English as an official language, is not a big English speaking nation (only 6% or some number like that speak it). I learned English because my parents are both Americans, from the western suburbs of Chicago actually, and came to Namibia just a year before I was born (they came in 1982, I was born December 1983), and English was spoken at home growing up. Therefore, despite my being non-American born and raised, I speak with a perfect American accent...Chicago to be exact (Chicaaaago)
LTU932 From Germany, joined Jan 2006, 13864 posts, RR: 51 Reply 17, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 4 hours ago) and read 3034 times:
I started with English in 5th grade, when I was 10, and then with Television and all that, I started to get the hang of it very quickly. Nowadays I'm doing English to German translations.
KFLLCFII From United States of America, joined Sep 2004, 3262 posts, RR: 33 Reply 18, posted (6 years 10 months 2 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 3028 times:
No hablo inglés.
"About the only way to look at it, just a pity you are not POTUS KFLLCFII, seems as if we would all be better off."
TheSunseeker From Netherlands, joined Apr 2006, 218 posts, RR: 0 Reply 21, posted (6 years 10 months 1 week 6 days 23 hours ago) and read 2980 times:
my parents plugged me to the computer and loaded me with some languages via my personal USB port. I wont tell you where it is though my HDD is almost full, I find it difficult to improve my english into the details...
RSA: Dont drink and drive - take the train and get mugged
AirbusA346 From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2004, 7434 posts, RR: 2 Reply 23, posted (6 years 10 months 1 week 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 2976 times:
Quoting TheSunseeker (Reply 21): my parents plugged me to the computer and loaded me with some languages via my personal USB port. I wont tell you where it is though my HDD is almost full, I find it difficult to improve my english into the details...
Tom.
Tom Walker '086' First Officer of a A318/A319 for Air Lambert - Hours Flown: 17 hour 05 minutes (last updated 24/12/05).
30 Atrude777: Nor do you, you ASS I spoke with sign language first actually . But hated it, quickly dropped it, and I took 3 years to learn English/American w/e it
32 AirPacific747: Started learning english in pre-school from 5th grade I think it was. I've also lived in Canada for 8 months so it helped expanding my vocabulary too.
33 EWS: Take the two T's, add a W and a A in the middle of them and add a S on the end. Lew [Edited 2006-07-12 22:51:32]
34 Prebennorholm: Fourth grade, ten years old, I was handed a school book with the title "English of Today". Later came business school and employment in a British mult
35 Prebennorholm: Another way to learn English..... I have a niece - pure Danish - who is married to a Londoner. They decided before their first child was born that mom
36 Prebennorholm: Yeah, I think you are right, at least about European a.net users. But what about our American friends? Their first two words must have been "Airbus"
37 Andaman: My language history is most typical in Finland: I started to learn English at school when I was nine, four years later I started with Swedish (all Fin
38 B747_A340: I started learning English at the same time I started learning Spanish. The problem is that I never really cared for English that much until I moved t
40 Alphafloor: Started with computers, then books, music lyrics, movies and now work in an english environment.
41 B747_A340: You bet... I went to high school in Arizona and I would get marked down for "misspelling" things. I just told my teacher that then I was bound to fai
42 Jap: Hate to burst your bubble, truder, but Kevin wrote that- ARSE
43 Atrude777: But it wasn't directed at me, it was for Lee So you STILL don't make sense anyway My dear Alex
44 Jap: I make more sense than you- and you know it
45 Tango29: I learned it as a baby but i seem to forget some of it when i drink too much!!
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because I'm english.lol. Honestly though, I would love to be able to speak to languages fluently! I did learn abit of Irish, German, and French at school, but I can't remember any of it now. I need to reserve brain space for other things now!
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