[Suki]

Yup pretty much what Ronin said.

English is taught at schools from a very young age. Speaking from my own experience, I attended English school in the afternoons after regular school, so I took about 4 extra hours of English lessons a week, plus 2/3 hours of English class at primary school and later on all through high school. I started reading books that were entirely written in English at the age of 12. I was able to do so because I'd been getting loads of extra hours outside of school and I'd picked the habit of watching movies in its original language, which was English most of the time. All of this and the music. Listening to songs in the language you're learning really helps, cause all the new words you hear are easily remembered as well as casual expressions and such, and then you just kinda find yourself using them and you might not have heard them anywhere else but they sound right to you cause your memory tells you they've been used before so they actually exist and you're not making shit up. I have a pretty good lyrical memory, so all the words I'd read from the books and all of what I'd hear from the movies it would all get stuck somewhere inside my head, and then it all settles down and you realize you can just use all of the knowledge you've been getting from all sorts of different sources. It's an amazing feeling, really x) I dunno, it's been a long time since I last felt I was using a language I wasn't fluent at when speaking English, cause as of today it no longer feels like a foreign language to me. I gotta say though, I put so much effort into learning it as a little girl that it took away all the energy there was in me, so to speak. I don't think I could take up any other language and get as good at it as I did with English, I feel totally incapable of going through that again.