I imagined the English language

[Someone here]

I don't know if anyone familiar with my posts/threads , if sometimes i make vocabulary or grammar mistakes..I'm not a native speaker since I'm an Indian.  But what's interesting is that I learned English in such a way that I would call "Automatically ". I didn't take any courses. Didn't read any text books for learning English etc.  I just learned it by myself effortlessly through trial and error . For example I'm writing right now this post and I have  no idea how the hell I'm writing it . The words just seem to get downloaded into my mind l. I'm even better in English than I am in Indian. 

What's the explanation for that? 

Well one possibility occurred to me is that I imagined the English language because I needed it to understand Leo's videos and to awaken . Leo is of course a figment of my imagination just like all of you guys are . I imagined it all. Everything. 

Students of English in today’s world, are …really getting taken to the cleaners..

In the end, it is not the “speaking” in English which serves for a proper goal.

The goal you should aim for is to be able to “think” in English and “feel” in English.

[Carl-Richard]

I learned English by playing RuneScape  School was just practice.

[Someone here]

10 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

I learned English by playing RuneScape  School was just practice.

Aren't you a native speaker?  Where are you from ?

[Carl-Richard]

11 minutes ago, Someone here said:

Aren't you a native speaker?  Where are you from ?

I'm Norwegian  I'm just terminally online. I guess you didn't read my DNA test thread  

Edited October 20, 2022 by Carl-Richard

[Osaid]

I'm surprised I know how to speak at all. No one really teaches you. It just happens, you pick it up from childhood somehow.

22 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

I learned English by playing RuneScape

Man I learned so much from that game, including how to type like 500 words per minute on my keyboard.

[The Mystical Man]

I feel like I learned English "automatically", too. It's the world language, and it's a very simple language. Therefore, reading and listening comprehension is easily achieved, especially nowadays. But I'm still not a fluent speaker. 

"My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years." - Mark Twain

[LastThursday]

13 hours ago, The Mystical Man said:

it's a very simple language

 

 

[Someone here]

14 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

I'm Norwegian  I'm just terminally online

Oh really ? I thought you were from US or UK since you are excellent in English. 

Is it very easy to write in English for you ?

How do you write sentences that are both clear and grammatically correct? How can you write good prose? How can you write like native speakers so that the people here  love and appreciate your  posts ?

I often asked these questions while I was started to learn to write effectively at the beginning of my journey as a content writer.

I am not saying that my writings are as good as native speakers.

But as a non-native speaker, I think my writing skill has improved a lot by applying strategies that I am NOT going share with you.

14 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

guess you didn't read my DNA test thread  

No .which one ? Can you link to it ?

Edited October 21, 2022 by Someone here

[Someone here]

14 hours ago, Osaid said:

I'm surprised I know how to speak at all. No one really teaches you. It just happens, you pick it up from childhood somehow.

Man I learned so much from that game, including how to type like 500 words per minute on my keyboard.

Lol are you like me ? Just learned it somehow magically without any effort and surprised at your skill in English without any previous "training "?

Where are you from? 

BTW congrats for the Mod upgrade ? 

[Someone here]

14 hours ago, The Mystical Man said:

 But I'm still not a fluent 

You have to train yourself to think in English. You probably speak in English but you think with your original language.  If you managed to think in English you would be a fluent speaker. 

[Carl-Richard]

38 minutes ago, Someone here said:

Is it very easy to write in English for you ?

I don't feel like it's a limitation, but it's not perfect. I've been improving a lot in the last few years on here.

 

42 minutes ago, Someone here said:

How do you write sentences that are both clear and grammatically correct? How can you write good prose? How can you write like native speakers so that the people here  love and appreciate your  posts ?

Caring about conveying clear thoughts and being understood. That leads to having a clear language.

[Carl-Richard]

52 minutes ago, Someone here said:

No .which one ? Can you link to it ?

 

 

[Someone here]

1 hour ago, Carl-Richard said:

I don't feel like it's a limitation, but it's not perfect. I've been improving a lot in the last few years on here.

 

Caring about conveying clear thoughts and being understood. That leads to having a clear language.

Good to hear. 

As far as my English proficiency is concerned, I’m on may to advanced. I’m pretty sure I can overcome middle level trap which is common to foreign language learners. To begin with, I must be excellent in  into four parts: Reading, Listening, Speaking, and Writing.

[Jannes]

Yeah automatically through trial and error, that makes sense. Language is a symbolic representation of reality. If we hear the word cat every time we see an actual cat we will connect the dots at some point unconsciously. But words like "therefore, but, ..“ are a bit more complicated. They seem to represent energetic movements. Damn that whole topic is a lot deeper then I thought.

I am German and learned English through YouTube videos btw. Before that I always sucked at english because I was unable to learn vocabularies. But by just watching yt videos in english I learned it without much conscious effort although my english could still be better. 

Edited October 21, 2022 by Jannes

[Someone here]

10 minutes ago, Jannes said:

Yeah automatically through trial and error, that makes sense. Language is a symbolic representation of reality. If we hear the word cat every time we see an actual cat we will connect the dots at some point unconsciously. But words like "therefore, but, ..“ are a bit more complicated. They seem to represent energetic movements. Damn that whole topic is a lot deeper then I thought.

I am German and learned English through YouTube videos btw. Before that I always sucked at english because I was unable to learn vocabularies. But by just watching yt videos in english I learned it without much conscious effort although my english could still be better. 

Yeah me too . I benefited a lot from YouTube Videos.  I would watch Leo's videos ad turn on the Captions and connect the sound of the words with how it's spelled. And in less than two years I progressed from a complete dishwasher in English to a fluent speaker ?

Also While there are many tips and tricks you can find about writing effectively, however, there is only one way to develop your skill which is Writing daily and being persistent on it.

Find your “Why?” and every day write and read, no matter how tough you feel because once you develop this crucial skill, you’ll feel proud for not giving up on your dream. And you will master english like you master your tongue language..

[Osaid]

11 hours ago, Someone here said:

Lol are you like me ? Just learned it somehow magically without any effort and surprised at your skill in English without any previous "training "?

Yeah basically. I never thought that was weird, I thought that was normal for everyone, but now that I think of it, a lot of non-English speakers have to go through English learning classes and stuff.

It still boggles my mind how any languages are learned to be honest. Like, I've never in my life consciously decided "I wanna learn this language", but here I am.

11 hours ago, Someone here said:

Where are you from? 

Parents are from Pakistan but I was born in an English-speaking country. Maybe that's why I was able to learn English so easily. I guess I kind of learned two languages at once, but my first language was not English.

They teach very basic English in school, like in kindergarten they would make you write 5 letter sentences or whatever. That's about all the training I got. I was always an anomaly when it came to English, though. I would score 100% on every single spelling test they handed out in middle school and I never had to study for any of those even once. 

I also spent a lot on time on video games which had English speakers, and I was also very fascinated by words since I was a kid. Like for example, I would see the word "universe" and "university" and I would see the pattern that both of the words have "uni" in them and then I would look into it and realize that "uni" means "one". So that curiosity combined with all the chatting on video games probably helped a lot. 

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BTW congrats for the Mod upgrade ? 

Thanks, that came out of nowhere lol

Edited October 21, 2022 by Osaid