I’m learning Portuguese rn and the middle one is real
Hurts my heart but I learned English on reddit, I had good school English and had to learn words early for playing full English games but it’s on reddit I learned how to speak it instead of just reading it without answering
I severely hope people don’t learn English from c.ai now…
Yahoo chatrooms
This makes me feel so fucking old lol.
None of the apps shown and only one of the companies behind them (Disney) even EXISTED yet back in 1980s Denmark where I started learning English by playing the family Commodore 64 😄
My first machine was a c64. Holy shit we’re old. Memory in GB? Nah. KB here thanks
You too, eh? I could type before I could write! I loved our VIC 20 and C64.
Come with me on a journey of nostalgia! Do you remember any favorite programs?
Never thought about it that way, but that’s wild. I was pre-school and already learning BASIC with our VIC-20. One of the earliest we bought was a dual-sided cassette of Math Hurdler and Monster Maze, but my dad spent all night on Christmas Eve typing in Killer Comet from some magazine so we could see it do something when we woke up to it at Christmas. I’d say my favourite of the magazine games was Tank vs UFO, though I still remember the frustration when one of those programs wouldn’t run! How about you? Programmed stuff like Rocket Command or was VIC Avenger more your speed?
I started young with the Muppet Learning Keys and Discovery Disk. I loved the AD&D games: Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, and Champions of Krynn. We didn’t have an NES, so there was… The Great Giana Sisters. Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar was great.
I might like CRPGs.
Ah, those sound like (mostly?) C64 games! We traded out the VIC-20 for a C64 around 1983. Much easier to get software for that. Everyone seemed to have them and a myriad of copy utilities and blank diskettes. I too remember getting a copy of Giana Sisters instead of the alternative for those with the NES. But we had just Mario Bros. where you got to whack turtles coming out of sewer pipes! I wish I had the AD&D games. Would have loved them, I bet. By the time those were released, I was rocking an XT when dad wasn’t using it for work, and using the C64 with a 1200 baud modem in the cartridge slot to play door games on BBSes when he was.
Youtube alone was at least 60% for me
I learned it from these guys.
School gave me a serious boost in grammar. It would have taken me ages otherwise. That said, the majority of my vocabulary is still from games. I might still not know how to call that rolling painting brush thing but I know at least 10 words for different kinds of swords. You can never know.
Heh, this gag still makes me fondly remember when I would page through the player’s handbook looking at the weapons and armor.
The order of the stick! I used to read this regularly for a short time! I expected something random about different weapons, but you shared one of the rare old ones that I had actually seen back then - even more of a delight. Yes, it’s pretty fitting.
I might still not know how to call that rolling painting brush thing
Oh, boy. You’re not gonna believe this.
Ahhahaha, I had the feeling it was some combination of some of those words, but wouldn’t have bet more than 20p on my guess.
Book goes brrrrrrr
That’s gotta be tough, learning entirely through written words without a verbal component.
Entirely: yes, I was given a good start by school, games, and programming but I really wanted to finish bleach. I ran out of my native language dubbing, so I watched with subtitles english dubbing, then just japanese dubbing with English subtitles, and I wanted to finish it leaving me with only manga in English. This again happened with Honzuki no Gekokujo and I just kept on reading and reading and reading to this day. I remember often using a dictionary on my phone during that time. Passion is the strongest force for learning, though my vocal skills stagnated until I made international online friends
I have to say, you’re incredibly impressive to have come as far as you have. And you took a unreproducible passion path completely unique to yourself.
I wish my special interests as a kid were anywhere near as useful for myself as yours turned out to be for you
I learned English though movie piracy.
watching on tv or through legal means would be translated to my local language, but thanks to piracy, I got all my media in English and learned through it.
I didn’t have streaming services when I grew up. I leaned from TV (in my country everything has subtitles, nothing is dubbed) and downloading movies at 20kb/s with Kazaa that didn’t have subtitles. I had English, French and German in school for 13 years. I don’t speak a word of French and German. The only French I know is “omelette du fromage” thanks to Dexter’s laboratory, while I have French family. But since they are too proudly French that they refuse to speak English, that I will put zero effort into learning any French.
Omelette du fromage is actually wrong, it does mean “cheese omelet” but it’s not how you say it. You say “omelette au fromage.” (Funny: the Wikipedia article has a chapter containing an analysis of the various viewpoints on what to drink alongside a cheese omelet.)
I actually know that, as it has been pointed out before, but in Dexter it’s “du” and I love to annoy chauvinistic Frenchies. So I’m sticking with that haha 😈
That’s pretty fascinating if true.
Don’t hear people talk about languages “spawning in their head”
Their version of “English” is most likely not the same as yours nor mine if they’ve made up 28% of it all by themselves.
Or they’re delusional and consumed more TV and music than they’d like to admit.
happened to me the first time I ate a whole bag of “definitely only CBD in here wink wink” gummies
Cartoon Network for me. And Linux manuals.
I would say it’s 20% in school, 30% from gaming, 20% films and shows and 30% from arguing with people online.
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