I learned it from these guys.
Real
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gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
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 😄
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
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?
Grabthar@lemmy.world 6 days ago
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?
osanna@lemmy.vg 5 days ago
My first machine was a c64. Holy shit we’re old. Memory in GB? Nah. KB here thanks
Dicska@lemmy.world 1 week ago
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.
kn33@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I might still not know how to call that rolling painting brush thing
Oh, boy. You’re not gonna believe this.
Dicska@lemmy.world 1 week ago
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.
NannerBanner@literature.cafe 5 days ago
Heh, this gag still makes me fondly remember when I would page through the player’s handbook looking at the weapons and armor.
Dicska@lemmy.world 5 days ago
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.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Book goes brrrrrrr
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
That’s gotta be tough, learning entirely through written words without a verbal component.
KernelTale@programming.dev 6 days ago
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
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
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.
Hapankaali@lemmy.world 1 week ago
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.)
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
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 😈
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 6 days ago
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.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That’s pretty fascinating if true.
Don’t hear people talk about languages “spawning in their head”
dracc@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
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.
tourist@lemmy.world 6 days ago
happened to me the first time I ate a whole bag of “definitely only CBD in here wink wink” gummies
solxix@pawb.social 5 days ago
I severely hope people don’t learn English from c.ai now…
nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
I would say it’s 20% in school, 30% from gaming, 20% films and shows and 30% from arguing with people online.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 6 days ago
Cartoon Network for me. And Linux manuals.
thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I’m learning Portuguese rn and the middle one is real
Noodle07@lemmy.world 5 days ago
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
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Programming for me. Those textbooks are rarely translated well.
MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I learnt it on my Reddit user era.
EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Colonization and Michael Jackson
i078@europe.pub 1 week ago
I share colonization, but it’s more the subbed cartoons we had than music
EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It taught me that a college is not a co-worker.
I really like the German voice acting culture but having everything translated doesn’t help improving your English
Bullerfar@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Learned it from PlayStation X games
SuDmit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
I got my basics in school (grammatics, times, structure of sentences) and beginning of university. Sadly never understood articles. The rest is games and some series, then also reddit and youtube (and general internet troubleshooting). Yeah.
Etterra@discuss.online 6 days ago
Kids these days. When I was a kid we had to learn English from one of the 9 TV channels we picked up on the antenna and we hated it. If you don’t hate your education you’re so goddamn lucky.
silver_wings_of_morning@feddit.dk 6 days ago
Video games 95% for me. Later it was sitcoms or other television series, and some film. Cartoons and donald duck comics were not in English.
bizarroland@lemmy.world 6 days ago
There’s also the .001% people like me and my dad that are hyperlexic and taught ourselves.
osanna@lemmy.vg 5 days ago
I must be hypolexic then. I’ve tried learning other languages and it just doesn’t compute.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Ordering food at a restaurant.
darkevilmac@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Mostly my Mom reading me books and stuff before I entered kindergarten. All the more complicated grammar came from primary school and not wanting to look uneducated online oddly enough.
AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
I’m American and yeah definitely the “it spawned in my head.”
Also the same happens for other languages too, though I’m not around them enough to attach meaning to it. But I’ll dream different languages or hear Russian and French in my head sometimes and have no idea what it means.
What’s crazy is that everytime I’ve remembered and been able to type them out, they are legitimate phrases not just nonsense. I guess my mind just picks up phrases it hears and doesn’t attach the meaning to them fsr just repeats them.
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
Game forums (ye old Akamai games), game tutorials/guides, twitch?
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
I made up the English language
Little8Lost@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Memes
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 week ago
A colleague of mine learned it from the hit '90s TV sitcom “Friends.”
Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Youtube alone was at least 60% for me