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and many others, developed such good English skills. In my country English is a second language for almost everyone, although sometimes people choose to learn German more. I hope you're all familiar with CEFR system, generally I would say that in Poland people mainly know it at B1/B2 level. They have learned the basic, but aren't so advanced in it.zoom wrote:notification
In my highschool, which is one of the best out here, however, the English level is very high. In my year grup, consisting of over 100 pupils, there are 7 groups of English. The highest are at C2 level, the third and the fourth one (to which I belong) — at C1 level, the rest is pretty much at B2 level. My peers successfully pass CPE, CAE and FCE exams. I'll take the CAE exam at the beginning of June.
I feel like my collegues put some effort into actually learning English, whereas generally I think people at my age don't care that much about it. Of course I'm not saying that every Pole is such, there are a lot of people knowing English very well in my country, but I just think it's a general tendency.
Personally I've been learning this language since I was 6, but obviously the level was pretty low back then. It was my second language throughout my whole education (I'm 18 now, finishing the highschool) and I've never had any problems with learning it. I was doing well at school, but in comparison with other ones my level wasn't that high, which I realised when I came to my current highschool (2013). Since then, I feel I have developed a lot, especially in terms of speaking.
There was a period in my life (something like 2014—2015) when I was spending way too much time on Youtube, watching some dumb videos, but mainly in English. Later on I discovered ZeroEmpires' channel and found out that there still is a huge community of AoC players. I then came across Interjection's channel as well and started playing AoE3 in a less nooby way, I suppose... Anyway, I feel like listening to all the commentaries by Zak, Inter and Zuta, who are all native speakres, helped me a lot. A lot of common language and useful vocabulary is used in their videos, so later on I had no problems with communicating with other people on a regular basis. Most of the Facebook pages I follow are English as well. I also downloaded a dictionary on my mobile phone, so when I don't know a word I quickly check it and learn easily, which wasn't the case in the past ;p
All in all, I think I'm at the C1 level right now. I'll try to pass that CAE exam, like I mentioned. ESOC forums help a lot in this regard as well, since I write a lot here in English, sometimes pretty long posts.
So I'd like to know how have you guys learned English in your life? What is your CEFR level? Have you taken any language courses, learned everything at school or just individually at home? What is the average level of English in your country? Have you got any useful tips? Do you actually care about learning this particular language?
I'm looking forward to reading your answers!
