In which Pez wastes space on your friends list!

[pez]

I was just thinking how many people around here don't actually speak English as their first language. On my flist, I have Chinese (Mainland/HK, and I don't know if Taiwanese and Singaporeans like to call themselves Chinese), Filipino, Brazilian, Portugese, French, German, Norwegian, Finns (is that the right word?), Argentinian, Vietnamese, Indonesian... and others I can't think of right now because I lost some brains through my nose this morning. XD

I know we all mostly write in English because that's the language most understands around here. My question is, how come everyone's English is so good? Is it because you live/lived overseas? You learned it in school and keep practising online? You love reading English books?

Don't mind me, I'm just curious. XD Here, watch Roy dance.

Comments

[maeran.livejournal.com]

*adds Korean to your list!* Mine isn't all that good. XD But I learned English through...

Sailor Moon!

...No, I'm not joking, either. The year I came to US (when I was 13), Sailor Moon was on Cartoon Network. I bought it hook, line, and sinker, despite the horrid dub voices. I must have watched each episode at least half a dozen times, or more. Um, a lot more.

It seems to have been effective, because when I transferred to another school a year later, I was immediately kicked out of ESL on the first day. Apparently I wasn't desperate enough to warrant help. XD

And! R.L. Stine as a new ESL textbook! It helped, really!

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

......no way. XD! Didn't it make you talk in a funny way?