Why, when and how did you start studying English?

[aliceflamel]

Hello,

I've been studying English for seven years. I started when I was 16 years old.
Music was the subject that showed me how important is to learn English.
I love to learn English. That's my thing =)

[felipeh6]

Holle,

Actually, I've started to study English at secondary school. In some way, that american accent was always sounding great in my ears. After that, in 1996, I started to study it in a particular English School, mainly to understand movies and songs. After some time... and studying, I've perceived that I could use it to work. And here I am using English as an export salesman. A lot to study yet, but it's a pleasure to learn it. Something unstoppable!

Sincerely.

[Camila e Bruno]

I started to study English, because in the last centuries the English became a second language ... and English opens many doors for the labor market.
bye:Camila

[LeandroRJ]

Well, I was 14 years old when I started learning english in a course. Before this, I used to learn just some words at school, that to tell you the truth, was terrible teaching this language. When I was 15, I joined Ibeu and studied there for 6 years until I finish studies there on the second semestre of last year. Well, my english is not that bad, I can understand things and talk diary things, but actually, my english is away from being fluenty and my knowledge is not enought, and I guess it'll take lots of years to reach this. I have many troubles learning phrasal verbs, for example, I just can't memorize many of them and than I start translating each word apart, what obviously, doesn't work. I've bought a book about this recently and I'm studing now, but anyway, I think they are my biggest problem. Furthermore, I have problems with listening, some sitcoms drive me crazy about their talkness and expressions so fast and different from what I'm used, I just see a big hole between the english taught and the english native.

[rafaeubh]

I study english because i like the language becaus off the sounds. I started study english officially in 2006 in school of language but in 2011 i was dissatisfied with scholl and now i am studying alone.

[Luanfs]

I started studying English a year ago, because, a couple of years ago I met a american singer on youtube and I start to like her.
First, my wish was learn english to meet her personally( a typical teenager's dream), but after, I started to like the language and started to see videos of people who went to study in High School at United States and I felt a big interest, but unfortunately I couldn't go. But I still wanna go there (and I'll live in California). Until there, I'll improve my english (I need to learn a lot).

(Sorry for any mistake)

[ernando]

To me, studying English becomes naturally. I think I start it when a was 12 (now I'm 17, so it's been 5 years). In the begining I don't care much about grammar or spend hours trying to understand the language, actually it was just because of music.

The time passed and I realized how I was better than my classmates in English, just because I like music, it make me try to improve my vocabulary, but for real I just realize that I really can became fluent in the English language about 2 years ago. Now I listen to music + watch movies and TV series + try to pratice my writing in forums like this and I'm taking a English course.

My goal is became fluent before I turn 19. It will be hard, but I'm doing my best.

[chronos]

I was 10, I think. I didn't have much interest in English, but I loved to play my video-game - A Mega Driver. I got a game, Scooby-Doo Mystery, in which I had to follow clues to solve a mystery. Ir order to do that, this game had a lot of dialogues, and I had no idea of what I was doing.
I was getting my first English classes at fundamental school, and I was enjoying learning the verb "to be"... But, playing the game, I knew I needed MORE!
So, while playing, I made this sudden decision to understand the game... And started copying all the dialogues. They were fast, so I had to copy it quite quickly. After copying everything, I went translating word to word, and putting then in a way I could understand. This was my first hard contact with the English language. Since then, I love it.
After that, I kept studying English, not only at school classes, and learned a lot specially with dialogues of many games I played and with the lyrics of classic rock music - a great passion.

[ernando]

To me, studying English becomes naturally. I think I start it when a was 12 (now I'm 17, so it's been 5 years). In the begining I don't care much about grammar or spend hours trying to understand the language, actually it was just because of music.

The time passed and I realized how I was better than my classmates in English, just because I like music, it make me try to improve my vocabulary, but for real I just realize that I really can became fluent in the English language about 2 years ago. Now I listen to music + watch movies and TV series + try to pratice my writing in forums like this and I'm taking a English course.

My goal is became fluent before I turn 19. It will be hard, but I'm doing my best.

Re-writing the post I wrote some months ago to make better:

For me learning English stared naturally. I think I started it when I was 11 (in 2006) (I am 17, so it's been 6 years approximately). In the beginning I didn't care about grammar or pronunciation, and I didn't spend hours trying to understand the language, actually it was just for fun, as a hobby, mainly because of music.

Time passed and I realized how better I was than my classmates in English Classes (just because of my music preferences). It made me start trying to learn the language for real. Then one day I found this amazing website, which provide all kinds of tips and answered all the questions I had about how to learn properly. Nowadays I listen to English music, watch movies and TV series in English, I'm taking English courses + learning phonetics and right now I'm in Canada in an exchange program!!!

My goal is to "feel" fluent in the English language before I turn 18. It will be hard, but I'm trying to do my best.

[luizhsilva]

I started to study english last year in an English School because I love English and also is one of the most spoken languages in the world!