How did you learn english?

For all you dutch people, how did you learn?

Uitspraak van Hot Pepper op zondag 11 december 2005 om 12:35:

I have to say speaking English is easier then writing it though.

I'll second that. When you talk to someone you can move you're hands around and talk fast or slow, when you write you have to explain something without emotions or movements.

Nice to hear you have a English boyfriend.

Uitspraak van *Karlijn* op zondag 11 december 2005 om 13:08:

second that. When you talk to someone you can move you're hands around and talk fast or slow, when you write you have to explain something without emotions or movements.

I don't agree.

Writing gives you more time to think about what you want to say and how you're going to say it.

And English grammer and spelling are not that hard to learn

Uitspraak van Hassanova op zondag 11 december 2005 om 13:17:

Writing gives you more time to think about what you want to say and how you're going to say it.

That's true, but when i'm online on msn, and i want to have a nice conversation with a friend in the States, most of the time he doesn't understand me because it is going all that fast. So i think that when you're on a forum or writing a mail to someone it is indeed easyer, but when you have to write a story down in short time, it's quit difficult.

Uitspraak van *Karlijn* op zondag 11 december 2005 om 13:08:

Nice to hear you have a English boyfriend.

I like the English!

In a few weeks we're going to England again (Christmas) to pay my mother in law a five days visit.

Thank God, my mother in law is a nice woman.

Lived in Ireland for a year when I was 7.

nice, very nice

Well thank you. I've also lived for about 1,5year in an appartement in the Upper East Side of NY. I really enjoyed living there, it felt like my second home. Still miss it a lot though.. love to go back someday.

Uitspraak van Hot Pepper op zondag 11 december 2005 om 16:58:

In a few weeks we're going to England again (Christmas) to pay my mother in law a five days visit

I'm going in February to London, to Hardhouse Academy

I also want to go to London someday.. unfortunately i'm quite busy lately. Hot Pepper, i really recommend you to go shopping in London with Christmas, its really magical around that time of the year. Have fun over there.

Shopping in Paris for the summer and at wintertime in London.
Autumn and spring Milan?

I've rented the appartement, is that good enough?

What's good enough for you and what's good enough for me is of no importance, I just said that the location does one think: ;

Haha, you're quite funny. Who are you? Do i know you..

Just a stranger.
No.

By listening to music.. I write, so I always wanted to know the lyrics (and the meaning of it) of songs that I liked..
And I guess I've got a talent for English, at school I din't even have to go to the classes Finished school with a 9 for English.

studied english all my life at school, but i improved a lot while making my erasmus program in english at holland

I've learn english at my work, before i only spoke basic english. Every day i learning more english with watching bbc with the subtitle on, or reading topic like this.

Uitspraak van *Karlijn* op zondag 11 december 2005 om 19:04:

Hot Pepper, i really recommend you to go shopping in London with Christmas, its really magical around that time of the year. Have fun over there.

I'm afraid that's not gonna happen Karlijn, because we're going up the North (West Yorkshire) so it's not around the corner.

But London must be brilliant with Christmas.

By watching tv when I was a kid. I could understand and speak English before I ever had any lessons at school

at school (european school) and at work

School, tv, movies .

I used to go to an international school in Singapore.
was pretty cool tho.
but no drugs

Watching porn.

I'm what you call an autodidact.
I taught myself by watching endless hours of English television as a kid (and I still do):

- BBC
- Sky Channel
- Super Channel

Unfortunately, Sky and Super Channel are only available via Satellite or decoder nowadays

English was the only course in school I never had to really study for

tv

I wouldn't know... school, I guess, we started early at the primary school I went to, at age 8 or 9 I believe.
And tv, internet, chatting with foreign people...

I think for the first time on school but the Dutch television also helps a lot with the english movies with dutch subtitles so that's a great advantage!!!..

School, music, television and friends. Too easy
In Holland almost everybody knows how to speak (and write) English.

From hookers

from tv, computer, etc.
completely by myself, sry for the bad language.
i really love the irish and scottisch dialect

@ School and i speak with some peoples who they can´t speak my language at weekends so it will be much better from time to time

@ School but my 1st language was Welsh before the end of Primary School

Uitspraak van verwijderd op donderdag 15 december 2005 om 10:33:

Watching porn.

not much text in those movies

at school

i learned to spiek inlish at a dutch school in the eest of the countrie.

it's truu, in da eest we haave exalent skools

Schools and english friends

at school, had lessons for 8 years.. and of course by a lot of talk to people from other countries

school, tv, and some friends touhgt me some english during my visit in the states I believe it's some kind of second nature to me . I should be speaking and writing proper english because it's required for my education.

Natural imbiberment....

You figure the word out

I learned English by myself and I evolved it when I whent to school.

From my mom, she's Irish. At school and college. By living in the States for 6 months. And by working for an American company, where the language spoken is English

- At school
- From my parents
- By watching tv and movies
- During holidays

Uitspraak van Ootje op dinsdag 14 februari 2006 om 14:43:

whent

o_O

Ownli dhe sphellingk noew huh?

At school

my brothers started to teach me the little things when i was 4, most I learned from watching TV

Society

with a pack of butter

at school

at school