Spanish (from Spain).

Who knows when I started to learn English, because my first English teacher was the worst.

True, I've given up on the real world, however I haven't given up on myself. The world doesn't get to decide whether my life is boring, fun, or ordinary coz that's my decision to make. As long as I have the will nothing is impossible!

Polish then lithuanian after that russian and then in form 4-5 we startet to learn english at our school(I just live in region where we just HAVE to know 2 languages minimum otherwise you won't be able to communicate freely). 😃

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im from Sweden and my mother tongue is Swedish. i dont remember exactly when i started to learn english but it was sometimes in the early school age possibly first grade.
anyway i really sucked at english until i started to read manga in english when i was in junior high.

Slovak.

I started to learn English about 7 years ago. If you take watching anime with eng. subs and watching English movies as learning. I never learned in school. Well, we had classes I think 2 years, but my first language was german. That English teacher didn't know English herself.

if there is an option between "to do" and "not to do", I will always choose the latter.

"what kind of crazy, twisted conclusion is that...?" - banana bread no puding

I speak Vietnamese
I started learning English when I was 8 years old when I moved to Canada

🙂

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My mother tongue is Spanish; I started learning English when I was 11 years old

朝露の少女。

“The longer we live, the more weight we carry in our hearts.”

@chrum yeah, from the posts written I can tell that even though English isn't a lot of people's native language, most are fluent in it.

@AngelCharms I feel out of place too, and I started this post.

btw, I'm American and while I've studied other languages, I can only understand English.

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Started to learn English in elementary school, and I'm still stupid.

And the connection of speaking English and intelligence is what exactly?

According to this topic English is the minority language here. Though I think it more likely that native English speakers just don't feel like answering.

Far-off places with sweet sounding names.

My native language is Finnish, and I started learning English at school when I was 9. I had learnt some from games and such before that though. :3

Bleergh. ;_;

Dutch.

We are taught English from the second to last year of elementary school to the end of high school.

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My native language is portuguese. I have foreign family though, so I had contact with english early in my life, even though I only started writing it after I was 6 (when I learned how to write, of course). Till then, I only understood a few words. Right now, I'm fluent in english, almost fluent in spanish (a few mistakes in writing) and I know basic french (at least, enough to understand and have simple conversations).

My native language is portuguese, and i started learning english with 14 years old. I still do some grammar mistakes and sound a unnatural at times. Also, just moved to japan to improve my japanese.

Boring guy here--I'm an American, native language is English.

Seeing all of these people saying that English isn't their native language makes me feel a lot better about the fact that mangaupdates' forums are riddled with terrible spelling and grammar.

Huh... Surprisingly many Finns here, or at least answering on the topic. I'm the in Finnish club as well.

I started to learn English somewhere aroud the age of 5, can't remember exactly. I was basically "reading" my elder brothers' magazines and such and started to learn it word by word by perstering my elders in the family to teach me. Also, I've been gaming since before I remember, so I've gotten some of it from there as well. In school we started to learn English at 3rd grade, at the age of 9. Had it in school all the way since then.

Swedish came in later in school and I've picked up a limited understanding and communications capability of Japanese by being a weeaboo. I seem to have a head for languages, though its a bit too late to make an occupation out of it 😀

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Russian (one that use in my daily life), though "native" would be other one. Writing from Kazakhstan (post-soviet republic ftw!). Fluent in English, I guess.