ESL anons, how long did you spend learning English before becoming fluent...

Most people here learned English when they were kids(at least that's how it was for me) so it'll be more difficult to learn a language just by immersing yourself in the culture. The best thing to do is study grammar and basic vocabulary and then try to watch TV or read magazines in your target language

Nah, already had english classes at this point, but theyre pretty basic

thanks for the tips, anons. I guess i'll try duolingo or something like that

>how long did you spend learning English before becoming fluent?
I used to think I am fluent but I realized there are a lot of things I still struggle to express. :(
Jow Forums is kind of helpful because I see how people usually say certain things that I say differently.
English is taught in flipland since kindergarten but not by native speakers.
if you go to ordinary schools, chances are your grammar will be fucked but you understand English quite well.. or understand a significant amount(?)

>Do you remember your first time posting in English on Jow Forums?
not the very first time but I remember my early days. I don't think my English has gotten so much better.

ive gone to bilingual schools since preschool (until high school when I attended a purely English school). i also watched TV and movies, played videogames and browsed the internet exclusively in english. i completely rejected my native language, to the point that I speak English more fluently than my language. theres videos on Youtube I made when I was like 12 and I'm impressed on how good my English was

I sometimes purposely use wrong grammar because I like the effect it can have in a sentence, and because it's fun to see grammar of "foreign" languages creep in English use online

Yeah duolingo is good for basics. You should also check /Lang/ to see if anyone else is learning the same language or you could find a native there

I just realized that it was my mother who pushed me to consume English media since my birth so hard. thanks mum

Hi! (Sorry for my bad english!)

English is in a lot of media here, we subtitle movies and shows and games are rarely translated. We also had English class but I never really paid attention to grammar rules and such because I can understand it almost flawessly.
That said talking English is always a bit harder when I have to do it, searching for words and such but writing/reading/listening is no problem

It's believed that person need to spend 5 years to become fluent in english.
I'm doing it only for 2 years. Though i was learning it in school for a few years but our english teachers weren't good pro and number of english lessons per week wasn't enough.
So after school i knew only 'Hello, my name is Boris, i'm soviet spy, London is the capital of Great Britain.

idk it just sort of happened over time. from about the age of 12 I started becoming increasingly introverted and spent most of my time on vidya and the internet, all of which were in English. but I always wonder why some ppl I know consume just as much western media as I do but they can barely scribble a sentence together unlike me. of course I am not trying to sound arrogant or anything, my English is still by no means perfect. i can't deny that I don't somewhat struggle when reading more advanced books ( mainly with vocabulary ) but I only recently got into reading so I believe this will become less of problem as I go on.
as of now I am thinking of maybe picking up French cuz it's cool or possibly japanese because I am a so-called "weeaboo" but I have no idea where to start

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I think I am pretty fluent at it (TOEFL 115). Parents forced me to start learning at 3 I think, so I have been learning and using it for 15-16 years now. Never posted anything using my mother's tongue on the Internet.