How do you know how to speak English?

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43 minutes ago, Bagel Organa said:

What was the website that allowed you to type in words and hear native speakers? Is it available in other languages as well as English? It sounds like a great resource.

Here you go: https://www.dict.cc/

It seems to be the case, but I only ever used it for english and german. I hope you find what you are looking for!

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7 minutes ago, Sven Glimmer said:

Here you go: https://www.dict.cc/

It seems to be the case, but I only ever used it for english and german. I hope you find what you are looking for!

Thank you, that's great! I still try to learn some German from time to time so I can use this. 

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9 minutes ago, Bagel Organa said:

Thank you, that's great! I still try to learn some German from time to time so I can use this. 

My friend @Kyoshi is also learning german. It's my native language. The best of luck to you!

[IronM17 5,399]

I learned my first english words and sentences in school. But to be honest, I was never the big fan of learning english in school. So my english back than was really bad. The most english I know today was learned by myself while I watched english shows/movies, read english comics and spoke and wrote  with people from english speaking countries (like this forum). I would not say my english is perfect, especially my spoken english, but much better as it was in my school time. 

9 hours ago, Sven Glimmer said:

Here you go: https://www.dict.cc/

It seems to be the case, but I only ever used it for english and german. I hope you find what you are looking for!

I also use this side really often, and not only for german-english. ^^

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A great tutor taught me in less than a month. He always said I was a great student, but I maintain that he was an incredible professor. Also, my school teacher hated me because I couldn't be bothered to feign "interest" like the rest of the classroom, even if every single one of them spoke ill of her behind her back, except for myself, and she knew it. And yet, she specifically hated me because I was being honest. Imagine the stupidity. But I can't blame her. That lonely woman had to stand there every thursday and pretend to care. So, maybe that is what she disliked so much about me. That I could allow myself to be honest, unlike her. After all, honesty seems to be something of a luxury in this world.

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I learned 90% of my English by playing Runescape and the rest 10% in school. So who said video games are useless? 

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I honestly have no idea!

I remember that I attended extracurricular classes for a couple years when I was very young, but eventually I stopped going because I realized I already knew the stuff that was being taught, so I didn't see much of a point to it.

I do have the internet to thank for my proficiency nowadays, as it allowed me to actually start speaking the language with others in a more natural and consistent manner, but I wouldn't quite say that it was a conscious effort.

I remember mostly just looking up the definitions of words which I didn't understand, and translating some when necessary.

I would say it's something that I did more or less intuitively, if that makes sense. So I suppose the answer to the question would be, "reading, googling, and talking".