Thread:Arima no megane/@comment-25787298-20160513113337/@comment-27247962-20160603135100

Global perspective of how good people speak english, ej. Do you need nationality/country too?

Well since that's an interesting question, i'm curious for other responses, so i'll drop mine as a little push.

I started learning English officially at the age of 14 in school. But since there's a lot of access to english originated things, like TV cartoons, movies, games, books,... We tend to have the basics down at the age of 14, which is why our lessons we're actually already of a harder difficulty then other language we start learning in our country, now that I think about it. I'd say there wasn't a particular reason to want to learn english, since it's pretty much presented on a silver platter in my country. If there should be a reason, then it's because I like the language and the culture to a certain extent. I have no idea how long I took me to learn it properly, but i've always been at the top of my class when it came to english, since I normally rank somewhere above average in everything, this stood out for me. And i'm practically using it daily right now. From the point where I got into anime, I started using english a lot. That would be when I was 17. And at that age I also learned how fun it is to be able to express yourself in a lot more detail. We don't have as much words to express ourselves in, in my maternal language. (Example: 'aangeven' has 3 different meanings for the same word, while english has a word for those 3 meanings + 14 others xD I like that)

Did I miss something?