How much has Discovery Freelancer improved your English skills

[Arisen]

My first language is Hebrew, second is Russian and third is English.....Disco made me type faster and improved my English skill!

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[Narcotic]

This thread needs more NoMe

Not sure if sarcasm or not.
But you should have seen his early posts. So he surely improved quite a bit as well.

[Kirill]

While being my 3rd language, my English has improved a lot during this two years.

[Dimon]

Discovery didn't improve my english skills... When I joined discovery, my English was on zero. So I might say that Discovery learned me for those few years. (My 1st language - Ukrainian, 2nd - Russian)

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[Hubjump]

My first language is english so yeah,but disco is slowly improving my german... NEW SCHOOL LESSON,1 HOUR OF DISOVERY FREELANCER TO IMPROVE LANGUAGE SKILLZ!

[Fluffyball]

My first is Polish, my second is English right now. While it is not Discovery which made me good in English, Internet and games helped me more than school did.

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[Connor]

As far as I know, if you weren't born and raised in an English (1st language) speaking country or haven't been learning it from birth, it's quite hard to pick up thanks to all of these rules and stuff. I hate English so much. I'm still not great at it now as my grammar sucks. I've tried to learn German, though. Hated that too! I hate languages.

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[Lonely_Ghost]

As far as I know, if you weren't born and raised in an English (1st language) speaking country or haven't been learning it from birth, it's quite hard to pick up thanks to all of these rules and stuff.

Nah...all you need is to be in this language environment. You will hear it, you will speake it, might be slowly, at first time, but after a while you become better. I know a lot of people, who had nearly zero level of English, but due to RL situation, moved into English speaking countries, and after two-three years and they were pretty ok.

[Fluffyball]

As far as I know, if you weren't born and raised in an English (1st language) speaking country or haven't been learning it from birth, it's quite hard to pick up thanks to all of these rules and stuff. I hate English so much. I'm still not great at it now as my grammar sucks. I've tried to learn German, though. Hated that too! I hate languages.

We have been taught on English Philology this way: there are no written rules for using normal English, those are artificial and mainly written for the non-native speakers, because "English is as it is, no further explanation is required." Not that in fact almost no one speaks perfect English anymore, because even British are not aware of certain rules and structures, which we are taught and we won't be using them in daily life.

The finest example is in dual classification of the English tenses: 1) there are only two tenses (past and present one - with "will" being in fact a present tense showing will to do something); 2) there are around 16 tenses, such as Past Simple, Present Perfect Continuous + passive voice).

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[Cashew]

even British are not aware on certain rules and structures, which we are taught and we won't be using them in daily life.

^ This is correct, If you visit Britain you'll soon realise not everyone speaks English There are many words and phrases which foreigners would not understand. I assume ever language has these sorts of things. A basic example would be "sick". The definition of "sick" is horrible, disgusting, throwing up etc etc. But it can be used to describe things as good and awesome or cool. "That's sick!" Sounds kind of strange but it's all in different contexts. A lot of guys I know here speak better English than me, because they've been taught what is known as "The Queens English", basically the most accurate form of English there is. Whereas anyone growing up would be affected by the slang etc in their area of the country. Anyway, I've gone on a bit aha.

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