Discussion What's the main factor for you to learn english or foreign language(s)?

Nah, my parents migrated before I was born, I was conceived in England

 

I learn English by coincidence. I hear people shouting fuck in the movie and I think it's cool. After that I bring dictionary if I watch movie... And I'm still thinking fuck is cool word.

 

English is the best language in the world.

 

English manga release is faster than my local

 

Can you add choice as 'Ease of Learning'? Korean beats all other options in that.

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/5musq5/learn_to_read_korean_in_5_minutes_seriously/

 

When I was x years old,my parents always used to say that I wouldn't be able to get a job, if I didn't learn the 'so called magical' language "English"...
So yeah~
That's my reason for learning English.

 

Gaming purpose(harvest moon, final fantasy, gta san andreas, monhunt

 

I learned english from game, manga and novel(translated). Never want to 100% learn english, just to became able read some words and understand the plot.

 

I double you man! Everything sounds cooler in English... Like everything is more funny in italian!

 

Sincerely, when I was at the school or was forced by my parents to do a particular english course I didn't give a damn to it and consequently didn't learn a thing.
BUT, when I started to read manga online (in my language, portuguese) I perceived that there were so little series being translated and the ones that I wanted to read the most were in a snail peace I decided to venture reading in spanish since it was a rather close language to mine and so learned spanish by reading manga.
BUT!!! The same thing happened again! And so, since I already have a dictionary (because of school) I shall try reading in english since they have many more manga and chapters translated, and so I started reading eng manga with a dictionary in hand, got used, started to read novels, went to a proper english course (2~3 after starting to read in english) and got flabbergasted that my vocabulary was wider than the teacher's but my speech and hearing sucks but I can get by if people talk slower~
That's it~

 

Us native speakers are lucky in that we ruled the world once, so most speak it as at least a second language. As I still live there I have had no reason to learn another nor does our education system have a functioning way to teach other languages.

 

Honestly too much anime

 

English is my first language. I learned my second language, 'Sarcasm' at the age where I realized there were stupid people in the world. So I was about 12 or so

 

Seriously? Every language took time to learn. It's not easy to be fluent in a foreign language, any of them. I know 3 languages and I'm studying for the 4th.

My main lang, english, spanish, and now japanese. I've been having a hard time with the kanji and looking at korean characters with all those straight lines and circles just messes with my head. Not that I'm trying to learn. Just an observation. Maybe I should try Korean for real?

 

I learn it when I was around 9y.o because I wanted to read manga. 13 years ago, France did not publish a lot of manga, so I go pirate, and learned english in this way (hehe Im proud of myself). I readed the manga with an electronic dictionary. Each time I don't understand, I translate it (was I really 9 yo?). Once almost all manga was readed, I went to novel.

France education system (toward english) is really bad. Most high school student can't speak nor read fluently.

 

Actually, if you look at the benefits that being bilingual brings to the brain, especially with old age, i think i'm the lucky one since i had good reason to learn a new language xD

 

Have you watched detroit metal city? Go watch and learn the dao of the word lol

 

I just took a mandarin course for 3 months.. Minor reason, those who knew chinese can get better job here..
Major reason, there are so many good CN novels that are untranlasted or dropped

 

Educational System