URA BOAT Posted November 1, 2011 Report Share Posted November 1, 2011 their are many people from other countries that speak english..but i dont understand how did they learn it...did they learn it in school or did have to get privet tutors..or dose every one know english...and is it just me that thinks that only English(British) and Americans(USA) speak english... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Award Winning Boss Posted November 1, 2011 Report Share Posted November 1, 2011 My friends learnt it from a young age. Languages in england are despicable... people don't see any reason to learn another language because in primary school languages are poorly taught (and it always seems to be french) then at GCSE you can drop a language. I'd love to be able to speak german fluently Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
URA BOAT Posted November 1, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2011 i so most of the people ad can speak more then one language?..good thing i live in america..i learned english from living here..even though i am fluent in another 3 languages Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sammie Backman Posted November 1, 2011 Report Share Posted November 1, 2011 I watched TV. 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peanut Butter Jelly Posted November 2, 2011 Report Share Posted November 2, 2011 read and interact with people. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChikkyD Posted November 2, 2011 Report Share Posted November 2, 2011 I learnt English in grade 1 at school. My parents taught me like 4 phrases, and sent me off to school Just exposure and the necessity to be understood and to understand kind of forces you to learn. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AkHyldmo Posted November 2, 2011 Report Share Posted November 2, 2011 I started learning English when I was about 7 years old... My brother and I used to play video games (Zelda) and I would always read the dialogue in the game. Movies are of course another way of learning english at a young age! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hedwig Posted November 2, 2011 Report Share Posted November 2, 2011 (edited) I started learning English in kindergarten when I was about 5 or 6 years old. Unfortunately, after 4th grade all my English teachers were rubbish so I have my enthusiasm for books to thank regarding my vocabulary and such Also, TV shows and movies helped a lot! Edited November 2, 2011 by hedwig Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezak Posted November 2, 2011 Report Share Posted November 2, 2011 Video games. That is all I can say.Language classes are a very ineffective way of learning a new language. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
URA BOAT Posted November 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 2, 2011 Video games. That is all I can say.Language classes are a very ineffective way of learning a new language.i know what you are saying...i took Spanish for four year and i'm still have no idea how to talk...i know some basic stuff but that's it.. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilianna009 Posted November 3, 2011 Report Share Posted November 3, 2011 (edited) Well, I have never had good English classes at school till now (IB). I always had classes after school, in groups, not individual ones. You just have textbooks and learn...from basics like 'Good morning. I am...', 'orange, apple...' (Kindergarden, first year of primary school), to some more difficult things. Later on you just read some books, talk with some ppl, watch movies etc You just learn it like any other foreign language . It's sad like some native English speakers think that it's not needed to learn a foreign language. Until the time I'll be looking for a job I hope I'm gonna speak two or three foreing languages. English is not enough imho, now everybody learns it. There are sooo many advantages of knowing as many languages as possible. It is said that you cannot really get to know a culture and people without knowing their language. Sometimes I wonder...it's just so peculiar that so many things depend on where you were born and that...I don't know, just this thing that we have so many things in common and still we all speak so many different languages . Besides that there are many places where English is the mother language, I guess it has its advantage that it's not that difficult. I mean, I guess it must be quite a challenge to learn for example Polish as a foreign language. Edited November 3, 2011 by lilianna009 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaby Posted November 5, 2011 Report Share Posted November 5, 2011 I went to language school from the age of 7 (though I had had some English classes prior) and continued up to the age of 13. Then, in middle school, I had quite a good English classes so I gave up on lang school. Before my exams to pre-IB, my parents got me a tutor and I have lessons with him for an hour a week up to now, plus, of course, IB English at school. I learnt English using Helen Doron method which tries to resemble the natural process of a child learning their own language, we were not allowed to speak Polish during the lessons, had to listen to CDs twice daily and, naturally, learned English without too much effort. However, even though I was able to speak fluently after such courses, I had enormous problems with grammar (writing I learnt through reading) so my tutor had a hard time preparing me for the primarly grammar-based pre-IB exams. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jademan10 Posted November 6, 2011 Report Share Posted November 6, 2011 Kinder garten, even though its not my first language... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
citizenoftheuniverse Posted November 6, 2011 Report Share Posted November 6, 2011 You forgot Australia... People speak english there too you know! I learned english when I lived in america... 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StSilver Posted November 7, 2011 Report Share Posted November 7, 2011 I learned English as a kid in kindergarden. It's easier to pick up as a kid I think, even if it wasn't my first language. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
khalid Posted November 10, 2011 Report Share Posted November 10, 2011 I live in the middle east, But my school mainly teaches English with a bit of Arabic, as well as some of my relatives who just speak English. So mainly from school I guess Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
URA BOAT Posted November 19, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2011 it amazes how people can learn languages from school!!! i been taking Spanish for four years and still nothing as good as you guys in English. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninety Posted December 4, 2011 Report Share Posted December 4, 2011 We speak some English at home, but I guess I mainly learnt English through school? I've been at English-speaking schools all my life. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kim luffy Posted December 4, 2011 Report Share Posted December 4, 2011 My parents taught me and of course school and reading books and watching tv. They raised me speaking english and i don't even know my own mother tongue (konkani) because my dad wasn't so good at it so they thought what the hell, let's all speak in english with them. I kinda hate it and like it. Like it because my english is fluent and allowed me to take english HL but hate it because i don't know konkani, and it's such a cool language lol and hard in my opinion. I've been through english speaking schools my whole life. But, I know 2 other languages apart from english, kiswahili (learnt at home and taught in school) and french (taught in international curriculum). Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strider Posted December 5, 2011 Report Share Posted December 5, 2011 You forgot Hong Kong and Singapore. Well... not so much HK, but Singapore. My parents were from Singapore so I have fluent English. We now live in Hong Kong, loads of people here take English Lit/LL and do well, even if it's not their first language. I have a friend who can beat 99.9% of you in English (getting a 7 in Lit is an absolute certainty for him) but as far as I know he grew up here in HK. From my experience, just reads lots and lots of books... I finished LOTR when I was seven, that's how much of I bookworm I am, I assure you that helps a lot. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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