How did you learn English?

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Hurricane

i've been learning it from 6. class but i really learned it when i'm in prep. class in anatolian highschool. We had an crazy english teacher who hasn't married yet at the age 45,Ms. Kurcan :-) everybody hated her,but i really liked her,she lived in London for years and she loved her job and also i understand that i'm keen on learning languages so i got an advanced level of english with no special courses!

I'm Macedonian!!!

school, movies, music, books etc

Ipek K

School, business life and lots of practice.

ClearSky

My native language is Croatian.
English has been a mandatory subject since the 1st grade of primary school, and I also started parallel private lessons at the same time. All in all, I'd been learning it for 16 years through regular classes/lessons; afterwards it's been a continuous, daily learning process for me (through reading, speaking, writing, giving English lessons to schoolkids, etc...)

Once I read my first "real" (unsimplified) book in English (in the 5th grade - with a generous help of a dictionary) my grasp on word and idiom usage and sentence construction grew rapidly. Combined with watching TV programmes in English, extensive reading is a great way to improve foreign language knowledge. Once I started writing fiction in English, it was another major step in understanding the language. Spending time in the Cyberspace has been a tremendous help, too, especially with the slang and all the little details of everyday language that can't be found in books.

Qu'est ce que tu pense?

Was born in America.

Atila a

with yahoo answers

Charmed

Thanks to my father's job of course, some of you know, İ can't tell it :) And school with two other languages , TV , books, films ,songs etc . Like İ speak very well but İ don't write very good .

YabanciKiz

Born to English-speaking parents and lived in an English-speaking country for 23 years.

HOTTürk

Same as Hanibal, Yükseliş College!!!

And still learning.

Kvasir

actually it was a long process. you see, since I wasn't born in an English speaking country, I had English lessons at school, but I felt they weren't enough. So I started to search for English grammar books by myself and exercise. It was a difficult task at first because nobody guided me, but, after I managed to learn the basics (especially the tenses, which are the most difficult and the noun categories), I started to become aware of the fact that my vocabulary needed improvement as well. So I started to translate simple sentence, both ways, from English into my native language and the other way around. It almost gave me headaches at first, but after a while, I realized how much it helped me. So, my advice is to learn the grammar structures in the beginning, exercise them a lot and then start translating, no matter how difficult it may seem. Also, books (easy novels, travel guides, etc.) in English will help you a lot. Good luck!

♫ELI♫

i know coz i'm English....

anlarm

Well, my first encounter with the English language was through movies and the British soldiers in Cyprus. Then comes the radio; all those romantic songs of the 50s and 60s. I never got less than 95/100 at school. Finally I got a scholarship and lived in the US for one year as an exchange student in Wisconsin.
After that, I studied Eng. literature at Ankara University (DTCF). In October 1976 I became an Eng. lang. teacher in Cyprus. I am still learning.

rucrazy5150

Being born in the US, thats all our family ever spoke. Question is, how did you learn English being in Turkey!

Missy

my mother tounge

my dad is irish and i was born in dublin, i lived there some time.

psypholicious

learnt it in Africa since preschool which is like grade 0 really, then moved to england when i was 14 which was a bonus cos i'am now fluent,ma accent has totally changed which is weird..

school, then practice, reading english books, watching english channels and also i speak in English with my British husband :)) if thats the language you talk all day long, you get better and better in time...

user 12

i am english speaking and i have taught english to people over msn .they are turkish they teach me turkish and i teach them English Its great :)

Pala Remzi

my recipe is rather simple:
ONE WORD AT A TIME..

Listening to songs of Chris de Burgh helps you practice in English
Listening to songs of Sting makes you proficient.

(Watching "Desperate Housewives" makes you retarded for that matter)

O.CETIN BAYRAMOGLU

not yet!

giuggiolina90

I learn it a school togheter with french and latin.
I'm studying it since i was 8...so it's 9 year that i'm studying it.

???BIRD?militant secularist

school, practice

jezza

i was born to english speaking parents

hanibal

In Ankara Yükseliş collage.

Explorer

I was born in an english country

LiangMoi

I learned it in school.I know two other languages and three dialects too.Everyone knows a few languages in my area.

MORTİCİA

At England when ı was 5

Claudia

The family from my Father is from a English country.That's also where I went to school.

Irmak

I learnt it at school, with Turkish,English,American teachers and reference books.

Ama malesef İngilizce'yi çok iyi konuşamıyorum..

Morelen

Learned it in school, and watched english tv, and read english books, trying to use it as much as possible.

yyy

taught at school

pumpkin

Private school in Ankara, and I studied Amr. Cult. and Lit. at university, now living in London, but I can say the whole thing that was taught at school was just crap, only grammar, and formal conversation which you cannot hear on the streets....

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