How did you learn English/your second language?

well I don't know where I it came from, but the first sentance I learned in english were "I love you". After that I started learning the basics in 3rd grade, but what really made me improve a lot was that I bought a manga book called "Tokyo mew mew". I became interested and around that time my mother finally fixed the internet. At that time I always heared the word "youtube" from my friends so I searched for that site on google and wrote tokyo mew mew. Then I found an anime verision of it subbed in english. My interest in anime began. By reading the text-subtitles everyday I learned english fast. I also liked to sing so by singing the songs lyrics I learned how to pronounce the words. Still I'm a better writer than a talker. But this is actually my 3rd language. My 2nd language is actually sweedish. Even though I was born in sweeden both my parents are originally from Iraq so I learned arabic first and when I was about 2 I began using sweedish words. Now my 1st language is sweedish. My parents divorced when I was 6 so my mother had to work hard to earn a living for me and my twin sister. I went to arabic classes, but I had to wait until she came home at 6 `o clock. Then I had to let mum rest to 8-9 because she was too tired to help me and my twin. After that we studied until 12(midnight). Then I had to wake up at 6 and didn't remember anything. It became too much of a burden so we dropped off the arabic in 4th grade. Now I can speak and understand arabic, but not able write or read it. My 4th language is actually spanish and I began learning it last year in 6th grade. But still I do not regret not learning arabic as I've seen my father have problems mixing up words from different languages(I visit my dad on summer). -tine-tanja11

Movies helped me a lot

I'm Malaysian so Malay is my first language(some Malaysian use Chinese or Indian lang..as their first language)...well,you wouldn't say it a 'REAL' Malay,its more to dialect because i was from a country where they use dialect the most,in other word,a weirdest malay(its just like Korea,every places has its own dialect and Busan has the weirdest dialect,and in my case,i was from a country which they use a weirdest dialect there,even other Malaysian which use the 'real' Malay,doesn't understand my 'malay' xD,they laugh instead because of its 'unique',haha) I learn English at school but mostly i learn it myself through movies or drama because i don't pay attention when teacher teach(i always feel asleep in class xD)I discovered English on my own,i can write but i can't pronounce it right(yeah,people in my places are good at english but they rarely talk in English)(>.<)but still,i'm better at writing than talking.

I live in Barcelona so I have two first languages, Catalan and Spanish, I'm half Russian and can I speak and read it almost fluently. I have learned English at school but I had improved a lot by myself because of music and tv shows that I've been watching online for years.

Well, here in the Philippines, I'll say it's nearly impossible to find a person who don't know how to speak English at the very least. Though English is not our mother tongue, English is being taught at school from all levels. Lots of our subjects are taught in English as well. Mathematics, science, etc.

I'm from Sweden, but live in Norway. I learned English at school. English is my ''third'' language, lol. First language is Swedish and second language Norwegian. I'm also learning Spanish at school and Korean at home. ^^

My mother tongue is Spanish but I live in Canada, an English speaking country. I learned from Dora The Explorer + other cartoons & from interacting with people in school. I did come at a young age though, so it wasn't too difficult to learn. I also speak some Urdu and Arabic, and I can read + understand French, Portuguese and Italian. ^_^ Currently learning Korean.

I'm American so I only speak one language and that is English.