This might sound fucking retarded, but how do all the people on this board speak English, perfectly too. Literally people from every country are speaking English I really dont get it. Are your parents native speakers and brought you up with both languages? Were you taught it growing up? Hell, even google translate? how do you guys do it?
>>72296372
LINGUA FRANCA
What makes you think that it isn't just American government agencies posting here behind proxies?
>>72296372
My parents are Anglophiles who taught me English as a first language (pretty gay tee bee haich pham)
>>72296372
80% of the internet is english
people who come to an english speaking forum would only come if they have an understanding of english
english is basically Lingua Franca
>>72296372
>implying everyone isnt darpa
>>72296372
because not every person is as illiteracy as Americans am
mijn england is kei good
>>72296372
English is my native language, but the theory is lots of media is in English and so gradually people learn that along with their parents native tongue.
We have schools you know
>>72296547
I chuckled
Both my parents are native speakers.
It's not a complex concept Pablo.
>>72296491
canada, when I meant other countries, I meant people whos native language isnt English. And Quebec doesnt count, they speak english there. Unless you moved to Canada from a different country
>>72296686
A lot of people in Quebec don't speak English at all, you know
>>72296372
Most schools in the first and many in the second world teach English alongside the native tongue.A notable exception is Hueland where about 95% of the population can only speak Hue.
>>72296463
:0
oh my god.
Exposed!
>>72296547
because not every person is as illiteracy as Americans am
>illiterate
>are
fixed that for u chinkbro
>>72296618
yeah, they look really good too
We are brought up that way, it is expected of europeans to speak 2-3 languages.
>>72296372
Because everyone on Pol is actually just me and a few of my buddies
>>72296618
I chuckled
>>72296746
When I went to quebec, Every single person I met spoke english. Yes, not everyone speaks english there, But not everyone in NYC speaks english either, that doesnt mean that the native language is not English.
>>72296372
Raised on american-jewish idiot boxes like television and computers.
I'm guessing some of it has to do with having English courses in school, but that wouldn't be enough.
Most of it probably has to do with the fact that the US/UK churn out English-language media like a motherfucker and blast it all over the world. Music, movies, TV, you name it. And yeah, you also have a huge chunk of the Internet written in English. I guess you could think of it as a form of language immersion.
>>72296959
Even in Montreal, where you probably went, there are people who don't speak any English. You just don't notice them as a tourist because you pay more attention to the people you can communicate with.
English is the cancer language. I've almost completely forgotten to speak my native language (Ukrainian) since I moved to the US when I was 14.
>>72296837
How many of those lolis you think are for sale?
Most of ppl here are nerds and they know english language from games. Also english is the 2nd most popular language in whole Europe.
Arabic is first, obviously.
I have always been impressed that so many people here from non-English speaking countries speak better English than most Americans themselves.
>>72296816
>>72297093
all of them
>>72296372
As someone who knows someone wit's access to data traffic and details I can tell you 70% of all posts in a thread on 4chan is one dude or a few dudes who run through 30-50 proxies bumping and arguing their own thread
Let that sink in
Btw this is my 3rd post
>>72296547
>>72296372
Everything wortwhile was english since I was born, even my NES games in 1995, I was lazy student so they offered me Deutsch claiming it was easier, I told them I don't care since in my entire 10 years of life I've never seen German but encountered English every, single, day
and learned most of it from videogames, especially rpg games and pokemon. My opinion is that English should be mandatory along with mother language, it's the new Babylonian language
>>72296993
Oh, I forgot about all the countries where English is one of the official languages (thanks colonialism), so there's also that.
>>72296372
In Japan they learn English for science and debating because English is very very good at precision and Japanese is possibly the least precise language in existence.
>>72296372
English is mandatory in my country. We start learning in in 3rd grade. My grandfather didn't go to school but he could speak English well because we were colonized by the Brits desu
You know... there's something called english teachers, and they teach... (guess what?) english.
There's another thing called dictionary.
It's a secret that we hues have, but you seems like okay dude so I will share it with you.
>>72296372
Proxies; vpns
>>72296837
>sonlight
>>72297053
And nothing of value was lost
>>72296372
video games dude
Ahh ahh me so horny trump trump five dolla?
>>72297244
yet they still manage to be very incompetent english speakers for the most part.
>>72296372
>Literally
It's time to stop using this word.
>>72296372
English is the language of the internet. If you don't learn it, most of the content of our collective co-processor becomes useless -- a vestigial digital organ. How would our friends from the other side of the planet enjoy dank memes otherwise.
>>72297158
Man they'd earn every penny that's for sure.
>>72297244
I played CSGO on Japanese servers for a bit before. What surprised me is that they mostly talked in English.
>>72297053
Why would you need to speak Russian if you no longer live there?
>>72296463
John for fucks sakes this was the last straw.
>>72297409
Japanese people speak really good English desu, idk wtf you're talking about
Because most of their video games and TV shows are in English or their native language. If we started airing more French show I think Anglos would become more multilingual.
>>72296463
It's not even proxies. This entire website is false. Just a creation solely for OP. All the posters aren't real people. All the content is generated by the government tailored to OP. The shill and slide threads are meant to subconsciously influence OP, and play on his paranoia, while promoting insecurity.
>>72297244
>Japanese is possibly the least precise language in existence.
Spoken like a man who doesn't know as much as he thinks he does about what hes talking about.
>>72297607
alot of the people who post with jap proxies are marines stationed there
>>72296372
Took a very expensive english course back in 2007 to get a job. Since our government signed the FTA with you guys we were all forced to learn english or starve to death due to unemployment.
>>72297244
Wut, japan is probably the most precise language, thousands of ching chong characters with additional syllabaries
English is just lingua franca thank god. Means i can be a grad student knowing minimal weebspeak
>>72297839
lol
>>72297747
>about about about about about about
>>72296372
> Current year
> Not being multilingual
Get cūcked American.
>>72297978
Poland, you got a giant piece of shit stuck stuck to your flag. Stop taking it to work with you.
>>72296372
Music is in English. Videogames are in English. The shows everyone is talking about are in English. Academic papers are in English.
Even if you don't take an active role in learning, you'll pick up a lot of English just through Hollywood and Nicki Minaj bullcrap.
The ones here learned English through years of 4chan shitposting, thanks to the fact that posters are very strict with grammar.
>>72296547
>>72297978
I speak Spanish, just incase shillary becomes president
>>72297747
No, really, it's absolute hell to translate technical stuff because the Japanese version doesn't include half the information that is absolutely needed to make a correct English sentence, like, you know, singulars and plurals
>>72296372
I learned it from playing vidya and reading scanlated manga. Brazilian scanlation groups translate manga from English scans and not from the Jap raw sources so, Portuguese translation is shit.
I was 10 years old when I cracked English, mostly by myself. I did two years of an English course to get fluent.
English is really at the entry-level-baby's-first-language tier of difficulty.
>>72297905
>Japanese is the most precise
What
>knowing minimal weebspeak
it shows
Because a lot of high quality entertainment is in English
And most people round the world grow up around it
>>72298366
Nice dubs, green square, yellow triangle, blue circle, or whatever your country is called.
>>72297710
none of this is real
>>72296430
WORDS THAT KILL
>>72298508
You listed all those colors and hues and you can't even remember it...[spoiler]Hueland[/spoiler]
>>72296372
Only smart foreigners post on /pol/.
Unless they're Indian.
Or Canadian.
Or Mexican.
Or Turkish.
Or Swedish.
Etc.
>>72298212
I took Spanish for 2 years in uni and even did one of those immersion courses for a few weeks were people from Europe & America go to a Latin country to do 4 hours of instruction every day followed by heavy drinking each night. /pol/ has killed all this for me. I no longer want to learn any Spanish whatsoever.
Before, I would try to chat up Mexicans at bars or working in restaurants or wherever, but no I only see Balkanization everywhere.
Where do you stand on this?
>>72296792
A lot of people speak english here.Just look at the amount of brazilian posters who daily shitpost on /pol/
>>72297053
Moved to US in 2002 at age 10. Still speak fluent Russian. Do you not speak Russian at home?
And Ukrainian is a dead language. The Ukrainian today is an abomination created by idiots who aren't proficient in any single language.
>>72298847
Yeah we know, there is like a fuckin' brazillion.
>>72296372
English is mandatory subject in schools and universities in almost every country in the world.
>>72296372
b'cuz thomasites
>>72296372
It's called school, dude.
It's a place where you can learn things like languages.
>>72297219
>that comic
Cute
In Europe pretty much everyone learns english from the age of 10 if not sooner. Poor countries may have too shitty schools for the kids to learn anything and the French and Germans forget what they've learned because they translate everything into their own language.
>>72296618
Mexican intellectuals
>>72298819
Im currently in Uni, and took Spanish to the extent that i would have to watch spanish versions of all my shows to learn it better. Im practically fluent, but have some troubles. Im not gonna take it next year and for the same reasons, /pol/ helped me see how fucking stupid it is to learn both languages. I would like to one day to a trip to the spanish coast of the Mediterranean sea.
No Filipino post, yet? For shame.
You just have to acknowledge the American English language for how strong the culture is.
I don't care how you would interpret "strong," you probably string up sentences in your mind in fucking english.
Give it up.
America stronk.
>>72299260
English is from England damn anon, not from the US
>>72299433
Not American English, you fucking mexican.
>>72299433
American Culture has influenced the world to speak English is what he is saying
Americans are the least literate among first world countries
Can an English-speaking German translate this for me? What is the joke this man is making?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7SmNT-jZJA&t=0m35s
I can make out:
> Oh, I see a Nazi! *peers through binoculars*
> No, it's just a rabbit.
> It's easy to distinguish a Nazi from a rabbit.
> The rabbit has the ..... behind
???
>>72299607
I mean, yeah, we have black people
>>72296372
Pretty much everything worth your time is in English (and jap if you are a weeb like me). Although my native language is up there in the top 5 most used (Russian), it just can't compete if you want quality entertainment.
>>72296463
SHUT
>>72299565
chill bruh, im pro US too, not pro Barack hussein Obama tho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvXjifLX_24
>>72299260
You guys totally should have become a state
>>72297158
even americanized spics are into selling their kids, one of my backwards ghetto aunts almost sold her kid to her sister. drunk ass bitch
>>72299975
Oh. Oh, well good. Look I'll reply in like 90 minutes after I finish watching your video.
>>72296372
Keep in mind its easier to type it than carry on a perfect conversation in real life
>>72298366
>entry-level-baby's-first-language tier
pretty much
t. used English since I was five years old
>>72299974
IT
If you look at it inversely..
Americans are only fluent on 1 language
>>72297117
Underrated bantz from Poland
Im quadlingual i speak 4 languages my parents and most of my friends only 1 i feel very out of place and not really connected to others.
>>72297219
Good job Czechia
>>72300341
pls help
>>72299837
I want to know the Nazi joke
>>72296372
me no speak engrish verry well desu
>>72297584
Kek
>>72296837
>tfw when that's the only lightbulb in the village
So happy to be talking shit about burrito land in my air conditioned house, with my tablet, and a fan keeping me cool.
So good. >:^D
>>72297710
Brilliant theory but I'm a faggot
How am I the first bong to post in this thread.
You're all welcome.
>>72296852
> it is expected of europeans to speak 2-3 languages
Is this a European meme or is it true?
>>72300646
meme
>>72300570
I hope all the black people in the entire world notice you didn't ask for reparations or anything. Just "You're all welcome".
>>72296372
cartoons, tv shows, and movies while growing up, lots of them.
>>72296372
Learning languages aren't actually that hard if you're constantly exposed to it. Non-English countries are constantly exposed to English.
Also keep in mind while they all read and write perfect English you have to keep in mind most of them can't speak perfect English
>>72301175
Wot u on, cunt?
I can speak perfect English with a perfect accent.
Try me u pansy fuck.
>>72296372
Because almost no one who doesn't speak English goes on 4chan??
/thread
>>72296372
my parents are bilingual
specially my mom
i also had access to american TV and a computer for most of my life
plus english is not that hard to learn (at least not if you start as a kid)
i do not remember a point of my life where i didn't understand english
fuck english. japanese is far more superior gomenasai
English is easy
t. H1B foreign worker
>>72298317
There are more than enough ways to express specific things in detail in japanese. Lazy writing makes things hard to understand regardless of language
I think some people take for granted, that /pol/ is pretty intelligent and that the level of discourse on here proves it.
>inb4 le fedora
>>72301578
あなたクソ陰部
>>72296618
Learn something new everyday
>>72296372
Most flips are fluent because we're taught when we were young. Also huge benefit of being a former US territory
>>72296372
>Were you taught it growing up?
In a way. I watched cartoons and played vidya in English all throughout my childhood, then moved on to the internet. About 80% of the media I consume is in English and I shitpost here, so I interact with the language every day.
>>72301948
>>72302047
being able to speak english is more common then having toilet in bulgaria
>>72302178
Don't you have a porn to film with your sister?
HONRABUL SPEEKA
>>72296372
most europeans are forced to learn english from the second class forward.
things might look differently if the english didnt rule the seas back then.
>>72299837
Rabbit has the pecker behind. The Nazi in front. He uses the word stummelschwänzchen. It's not really funny.
It's amazing to me that the British speak such good English. Do they learn it in schools too?
>>72299837
why do you watch a left-wing propaganda show?
this is literally state tv trying to make any right-wing opposition look bad. makes me wanna vomit everytime I see somebody repost this shit.
regarding the joke:
>the rabbit has the "Stummelschwänzchen" on its rear
Stummelschwänzchen translates to "very small tail" (can also be understood as "very small dick")
>>72296959
In rural Quebec, nobody speaks english.
>>72302349
After WWI they adopted English to communicate with us better.
Cucks
>>72296816
Whoosh, joke went over your head. That guy's an American in Japan. Japan has its own 2chan.
>>72302303
You mean if the Americans didn't rule the seas right now.
Back then we all learned French and the education system is still convinced this shitty nigger language is relevant.
>>72302391
French Bastards.
Drinking their French Wine and banging their sisters while they break bread over the hopes and dreams of the true Canadian peoples.
I hope they all choke on a baguette.
>>72297053
You don't actually forget how to speak a language, it just becomes dormant. If you spent a week in Ukraine, it would become reactivated and you would be speaking it fluently again.
>>72296372
expats and military serving overseas.
>>72296430
FPSB
>>72296372
If people typed the same way they spoke, your opinion would change very quickly OP
>>72296372
It's called education.
>>72300646
well, in Germany you always learn at least English. In one school model you also have to learn Latin.
Other than that we have school types were you also learn at least 1 or 2- other languages (mostly French/sometimes Spanish/Italian/etc)
>>72302357
>>72302340
Oh, I see. Nazis have small penises.
I'm learning German in school, and our teacher told us to watch German TV shows to practice our listening comprehension. We all watch the Heute Show because it is the most popular and beloved show in Germany.
>>72302408
Unbelievable. Get 'em out of here.
>>72296463
Because they wouldn't be gay enough to pick a Finnish proxy.
>>72296959
Montreal I assume.
Outside of that urban shithole, nobody speaks a word of English.
>>72297219
>Babylonian
well said.
>>72296430
/thread
>>72297710
Kek
>>72299030
Kek'd.
>>72302357
So
>the rabbit has the small penis BEHIND the tail, the difference is the Nazi has the small penis in front
>nervous laughter hahaha we are so different than those losers
Then follow that up with refugees raping 10 year old boys
>>72296372
They start teaching english in 1st grade, and we don't dub movies.
A good amount are probably expats.
>>72297905
oldfag here - one or two foreign languages like French, German, or Russian used to be a requirement for graduate degrees. No longer! Thanks, English!
>>72296372
School, if you can't into English properly you're assumed to be a fucking retard
We learn Caesar and shit by 10th grade, nice base for education
>>72296372
My parents were dumb as hell to this day they live here in the Netherlands and they only speak Polish (we've moved from poland like 10 years ago) While I speak Polish, Dutch and English fluently.
I learned it mostly from the games i guess, and when i was young i had a phase where i was watching TV series and anime all the time and i was so bored waiting for Polish/Dutch translation i just learned English for it.
Also knowing English is just a basic trait because no matter where you go in the world if you know English you will most likely be able to communicate with someone.
But after that i just came to like learning new languages so i also speak jap and russian(jap because chineese cartoons and russian because i had few russian friends that were often talking in russian a lot and i was kinda annoyed by it so i learned entire language, both speaking only tho no writing) but not good enough to call it "fluently" more like communicatively
>>72300257
That's called American excellence.
It's when you make everyone speak your language. UK gets partial credit, but we sound less like faggots.
>>72303072
Why do you learn language but not to poo in loo?
>>72296372
>perfectly
Apparently, you haven't seen all the fucking retards who keep inserting the word "on" everywhere they should be using "at" or "in".
>>72302997
RARE
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>>72300550
Fair enough, mike.
>>72297117
>>72296463
I don't know if i should laugh or be concerned
>>72296372
Git gud
>>72296372
In order for the red pill to work the iq has to be over a certain number. This number is much higher then the one needed to successfully learn English.
>>72296372
>speak English
If they spoke for most they would seem totally foreign.
vocaroo.com
Any foreigners wanna give it a try?
>>72296372
I learned it at school from year 5 onwards. And since it's just a dumbed down version of my native language it's not hard to learn.
>>72298366
It's easy to learn at a basic level, but it's hard to become expert in because it's so idiomatic and irregular. This, because it's been run over by so many other languages over the centuries.
>American ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''education''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
>>72300646
Everywhere I went to in Europe, everyone under 30 could understand my English.
>>72302997
Thanks for flag and best version of laarb laos bro
>>72303278
okay
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0cnKeubmNJ0
>>72297052
Been there a few times. Literally everyone under 30 spoke fluent English.
You know why us non-native english speakers are so good at English? Because we're being taught actual English. If you live in England or US you'll start using slang or shortened versions of the language, which we won't learn since we're being taught what's written in a book.
I have seen the same thing happen in my country, where people will be "better" at the language than natives, but they don't understand our customized lingo, so to say
>>72300768
Those mirror neurons.
>>72301429
> H1B
'I have a doubt.'
'Today morning.'
Dream on curry.
>>72298508
>>72298693
More like words on flag land
>>72302711
watch it, but always remember that they are actively shilling against the right.
don't trust any information or quotation or soundbite they present to you, as it is almost always highly distorted or deliberately taken out of context.
there were even some cases where those tactics got exposed.
>>72303537
What? Why do you have an American accent?
Why don't you sound like Arnold Schwarzenegger?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp7X4TfSBLk
>>72301578
Yes there are many ways to express detailed information in Japanese but in normal usage of the language it is very vague.
A language is not only vocabulary and syntax, but also the way it is used. The Japanese language allows and encourages the omission of information in a way that makes it functionally quite vague when compared to English.
>>72302391
>>72303537
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1GH8rmaH6mL
>>72302971
no, the word "Schwanz" means tail, but is also a "slang" or inpolite word for penis. so the rabbit has its small schwanz (meaning tail) on the back, the nazi has his small schwanz (this time meaning penis) on the front.
and yes, all of this while 14 year old boys literally get fucked in the ass in a swimming pool. but good luck waiting for this cucked-up state-sponsored "comedy" program adressing those issues.
>>72303911
Is there a right-wing version of the Heute Show?
It has to be as beloved and popular as the Heute Show. No, a redpilled German guy ranting on a webcam doesn't count.
>>72302603
> also have to learn Latin.
That's kind of bogus, that supports only English again, no? You should learn some deep Germanic language, like, oh, Proto Indo-European or Old Gothic or something. Or Sanskrit.
>>72297219
This is what goes through the mind of every feminist when they meet a non-feminist man.
>>72303072
Surely you have your own heroes and myths, the Mahabarata and stuff too, though, right?
So help me I still don't see what anyone sees in Shakespeare, except that he's highly nimble with language.
>>72296372
I learnt it myself. I want to listen, speak, discuss with other people. If I limit the people who I talk to, then I will limit my progress as a person. It didn't take much effort to learn English, I'm not perfect at it, but I feel this enough lets me communicate clearly.
>>72304166
have you been living under a rock?
this is fucking Germany we are talking about. make one fucking joke about refugees and you lose your job and can basically leave the country.
We had a popular news reporter who dared to say that not every value before WW2 was bad. her existence was destroyed. she now works for some fringe esoteric right-wing online media organization.
so to answer your question: no, no such thing exists.
the closest thing we had was Dr. Alfons Proebstl. He had a show on youtube which was really well made and is absolutely anti-PC and anti-cuck culture, but relies heavily on play-on-words, so I don't know how good it is for non-native speakers
>>72296372
English is a really easy language to learn compared to almost all others..
>>72296372
the entire board is FBI, CIA, NSA, IDF, and (You)
>>72304203
yeah well, Latin is kind of the foundation for alot of European history/culture. alot of books were written only in Latin for a long time in European history. it was the language of scholars and the church. so I guess that's why we still have it in one of our school models.
also some professions actually demanded that you know Latin (medical doctor, lawyer), but I don't think they do anymore.
>>72296372
It's because (((they))) degraded our native languages with anglicisms and anglo products. Notable example: AquaFresh. If we weren't robbed of our national pride we would just call it WaterFris.
>>72297978
>ū
Why you steal our letters? >:(
>>72298808
>Forgetting Australian shitposters.
It's hilarious because in America nearly everyone is adverse to learning a new language, or nowhere near serious about it.
Asides from Britain's former empire, most of the world's infatuation with English comes from American mass media and culture since the 60s. American musicians, movies, and literature to a lesser extent have spread English to the point of being a lingua franca.
In my small high school, we only had Spanish as a foreign language choice, and it was the easiest shit class ever. However probably half of the class did horrible because no one felt like they needed to learn another language. Now I am taking Spanish as an easy second major.
>tl;dr American media spread English, and so Americans do not get exposed to other languages
>>72296372
I learned it using a dictionary and watching/reading media from ~9 years old and onward.
My accent turns out to be rather peculiar because I don't have many opportunities to practice it but I guess it would go away if I had to speak it regularly for a couple of months.
>>72296547
Never change japbro
>>72296372
Because everyone on this board is actually from the anglosphere. Anyone with a non anglosphere flag claiming to be that ethnicity is just trolling you fugging fag
>>72296547
Don't you have some papers to grade, John?
>>72296372
I've been living most of my life in the U.S. but it still blows my mind how good native english speakers are. Probably my proficiency is on par with the average american but when I do group work in college with white kids it's just crazy. They are in a completely different level. Sometimes I think I'm dyslexic or something.
Worst part is I struggle reading and can barely write my native language: spanish. I try so hard with english but I feel there is a barrier or something where I will always make mistakes and have to proofread multiple times. It sucks.
Took me like 5 minutes to write this.
>>72296372
I picked it up naturally while playing warcraft. I'm also the author of an english novel.
>>72305544
maybe you are dyslexic ..... you should get yourself tested for that
>>72296372
Either copypasta or educated
I was taught Finnish, Swedish, English and French in elementary school.
>>72300646
It's not.
>>72297710
To any anon reading this. I am not real. None of these other posters are real. None of the "people" replying are real. Continue on, anon. Think this is a joke, or meant for somebody else. Go on.
>>72296372
Perhaps you do not understand the cultural influence of USA OP, let me green text the thing.
>be 6-7 years old in the beginning of the 90ties
>finally get cable as eastern europe and all that post communist jazz
>cartoon network motherfucker
>the clasical loony toons, tom and jerry etc.
>simple english
>start studying english in school later on
>eat the shit out of it because videya and cartoons lighted up my interest
>later on discovery channel and all that documentaries, they began to subtitle them, so it was even easier to learn new words due to translation
>then I got a PC, and since the internet in the beginning was primarily in english If I wanted something I needed to further develop it
>Yes, school helped with the formal stuff
>but in comparison I studied german as well, because I had no interest in it however, today I can't even introduce myself
So, the entertainment media made my interest in the language and the internet perfected it.
>>72296372
I spek Ingland wel
Wait a second, we don't have a universal translator???
There are billions of people in the world. There's probably on like 4 million non-native English speaking users on 4chan.
So you're just getting the better English speakers coming here from all over the world. A lot of them have crappy written English by the way. 4chan lets you get away with being illiterate.
>>72309283
>USA
most european countries learn english english, not the butchered american version
>>72303581
What do you think people are taught in schools here and the USA? Ebonics?
I think the reasons places like Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, and the rest of Scandinavia have such good English in particular (especially spoken English) is because their native languages fit quite nicely with English in ways some of the Latin languages don't.
Plus what the fuck else are you going to do in Denmark? Keep re-watching your Lars von Trier boxset?
Mainly self-taught in English from watching Cartoon Network as a kid. That's how I learned Spanish too, except from watching telenovelas.
Serbian and Croatian were kinda implied while growing up, thank you druze Tito.
I studied German in school, that was a personal interest, and took a year in Japanese.
But yeah, mainly learned English from watching cartoons that had no translations. School just taught me grammar.
>>72296372
studied as a secondary language since 4th grade
now its being taught since 1st grade
>>72309283
Can fucking confirm.
I've learned more English from Cartoon Network and World of Warcraft than from going to english classes in school.
Back then, the cartoons were not dubbed over (like we have them today - they sound stupid in romanian and they fucking change the context of what they are saying most of the time).
We had only 2 channels with Cartoons (Cartoon Network and Jetix) and damn, most of the episodes aired were fun as hell to watch and they were very very educative.
Also, English is the most studied language in Romania. We have English classes starting from kindergarden and during high-school and college it's mandatory (so you have like 12 years to study English).
Besides English, we usually have another foreign language, like French, German, Spanish and whatnot. Hell, back in the 9th grade, I had Spanish, Chinese, English, Latin, French, all of them being mandatory classes.
>cartoon network
>jetix
>world of warcraft
>other games
>PC in English
>English in school for 12 years
>No accent in our language, so learning another is very very ease (especially a Romance language - hell, I've never learned Italian and I can fucking understand everything they say, that's how close it is to our language)
>>72296372
English education is mandatory for every Indian otherwise we won't be able to become Call Center Workers
Surprisingly we weren't taught how to poo in loo though
English is not my native language, but i learned it @ school. I always wanted to talk with almost everyone in the world, so i study english also by myself. Now i even can't fucking see a dubbed tv series if it is originally in english, 'cause the lips doesn't match and i freak out. What's up with that?
>>72296372
I learned english from games and movies. I was able to speak and write english long before i ever had to learn it. When i was 11 years old i played cs and got a mic. Played in an american clan with some pretty based dudes.i recieved my american accent from there. In my further life i have never had to learn english and can speak it without you hearing my native accent.
English is pretty easy because everything is in english.
>countried that dub every movie/show are cucking their own population, look at russia, germany, spain, france, etc...
>belgium doesn't dub shit
>>72296372
English is the language of Earth because the US rules Earth. You learn English or you're irrelevant. It's that simple.
>>72310514
>English is the language of Earth because the US rules Earth.
Nay , it comes from victorian age that's why we all speak english. Plus english is one of the easiest language on earth.
>>72310156
>>72310358
>>72310156
I wish other countries would be television worth watching.
I mean, other than the Chinese cartoons that we watch. I'm not learning moonrunes.
>>72296372
snappa jewcunt brucio other some sheila will snagga you seppo cunt bag fag
jungleland approves englando
>>72310641
This. Are there even languages which are easier than English? Except for Esperanto which only a bunch of nerds speak, and computer languages which are 100% unambiguous (at least they should be).
>>72310722
I remember we had some Russian Cartoons when I was little. Damn they were cringe-worthy, after 5 minutes of watching them you would feel like the bolsheviks were monitoring you.
I'll always remember that Russian Tom and Jerry, can't remember what it was called. Worst cartoon I've ever seen in my entire fucking life (even worse compared to the shit Disney Channel puts up nowadays).
>>72310157
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdMfciMgfCk
>>72296372
vidya+tv shows+mandatory english class
>>72296547
Does anyone have that collage of Japan's adorably broken english on /int/?
>>72296372
>Waaaahhhhh!!
>It's Not Fair!!!
>Why do you poor anonymous people from poor anonymous countries who are the only contact in my worthless life have to learn my language when I should be learning yours
>Waaahhhhh!!!!
This is how it starts.
Some people just don't like being on top. Don't worry Martini; you'll be on the bottom of the pile when we start stacking the corpses of the race traitors
>he only speaks one language
Fucking 200 years of British rule.
>>72296372
PLAY THE GAME HARDING
>>72296463
DELET THIS
>>72296372
>muh finnish education
Tbqh i learnt my english from violent action movies & vidya
>>72311042
americans and brits might be the only retards that actually do speak just one language, thinking that English is hur dur the most important one.
Piece of advice for our anglo friends: learn another fucking language, even two. Then you can start complaining that a foreigner stole your job, a foreigner that probably has a masters degree and can speak 3-4 languages, easily.
Hell, I speak 3 languages besides my native one (English, French, Russian) and I'm still considered a weakling back here. Most of our students can easily speak 2-3-4 languages when they reach University.
>>72296372
Most of them are using VPNs. People say "proxies" but that stopped being common a while back. Just using a VPN, editing cookies, and encrypting your DNS is usually enough to change your flag and apparent identity here, without the system tracking all your posts. Most of the threads are probably shills samefagging using VPNs. If you pay close attention to grammar, vocabulary, and style, you'll notice that there are at least 5 people posting under seemingly different flags. They're also careless sometimes and use images with the same weird filenames, they get triggered and sperg out over the same topics, then use the same URLs and arguments over and over and over. Can't be sure if these are pad shills, or just spergs who do it for free. Lot's of mentally ill anons and NEETs think they're online activists or haktivists, and target places like /pol/ for political activism. Telecomix has been caught doing this quite a bit in the past, there's also evidence to suggest that they're paid shills despite pretending to do it for free.
So when you see those same flags, it's likely because the rest of the stable VPNs have had their IP ranges banned by the system, and those odd ones just haven't been caught by the admins yet. Especially if the person speaks highly idiomatic, colloquial American English. Even people with very good English skills, but are native speakers of other languages, tend to have their own colloquial dialects from speaking English primarily with non-native speakers. If someone sounds American but has a different flag, 90% chance they're in America on a VPN trying to ban evade.
>>72296372
Serious response here
Life is the same for upper-middle class millennials everywhere provided they have an interest in TV and internet culture. Because the media the world is exposed to is very western, millennials in countries from Mexico to Egypt to India to Singapore have had similar experiences growing up like watching DragonBall Z, playing Pokemon and trading legendaries with their friends, arguing who the strongest Power Ranger is, building Lego, maybe watching Friends or Seinfeld and in general picking up on English and western values really fast.
When this category of people immigrate to western countries they usually have 0 problems fitting in and are very respectful and fun to be around.
>>72296463
DELETE THIS NOW
>>72311757
can confirm. Apart from a few TV shows and cartoons that were never aired in Romania, we basically had the exact same thing as the West had while growing up.
Same TV shows, same games, same cartoons, same movies. The only difference was that ours usually aired one or two years after they were released in the West, due to huge fees the TV stations and whatnot had to pay for the distribution.
Started pirating southpark when I was 14 back in 2000.
Spent 99% of my free time on the internet.
My accent is terrible, because I hardly talk. But at least my written english is ok
>>72311417
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Hell, I speak 3 languages besides my native one (English, French, Russian) and I'm still considered a weakling back here. Most of our students can easily speak 2-3-4 languages when they reach University.
Nigger what are you smoking? The universities are filled with retards that can barely speak English.
>>72311708
Best post I've read all day
>>72296372
Because people in small countries need to know English just to play vidya.
>>72296372
"What is school and education?"
- the post
>>72311940
Allofmywut?
What Universities? As far as I've been concerned, the people I've met in Bucharest (students) can speak English on a upper-intermediate or even advanced level, while most of them knowing some other language as well.
We had 30 students in my group and all of them could speak English perfectly. Where the fuck do you study, a private university?
>>72296372
I'm Romanian so that's why. Italians can't speak English for shit, as evidenced by this board.
Oorah, Semper Fi, close the borders.
>>72296372
English is a very, very easy language.
Media being so focused on america helped spreading it.
>>72312011
>>72312057
>>72312088
It's hilarious how many foreign students think highly of their English skills, come to university here, have to spend two years in ESL just to take 100 level classes, then get frustrated, give up, and go back home. You guys have a distorted sense of your English abilities until you have to live in an English-only country. Every time.
>>72296372
Video games.
But seriously, who the fuck DOESN'T speak 4+ languages in this day and age?
>>72296547
Is this ebonics, or do you call it something else?
>>72312175
Italians speaking English is almost as cringe-worthy as watching a French speak English.
It makes your ears bleed
>>72312228
Mate, I lived in England for 4 years (2 years of college and 2 years of Uni).
I have an A (star) IGCSE in English and a CPE (Cambridge Proficiency - Native).
As far as Im concerned, I've met more English people than Romanian that spoke English like Somalians on vacation.
>>72300251
DOWN
>>72296372
We learned multiple languages in school unlike you dumb americants. Also english is probably the easiest language inexistence
