Growing up non-English // STORYTIME

I grew up not learning English but I just knew how to speak fluent English when I got to school I was born in Canada and the rest of my family was born in Pakistan so I’m confused how I can speak so fluent and have the perfect grammar stuff, and that I have the power to correct people..... power to correct people wow

god this video is relatable as a person from european country ( Poland ) that learned english by interacting with fandoms (started with pokemon highscool series a slideshow type stories similiar to gacha and to RP's and later reading normal fanfiction and talking to people ).Also your english sounds great I whish I had your confidence to actually talk out loud in the language

that little barbie girl performance reminded of the time I tried singing World is mine at 10

I just arrived at the channel and I can relate. I speak a language that is similar to dutch and only a handful of people (4 million) can speak it. I even struggle to pronounce certain words in english.

sometimes your Dutch accent is cute

Actually i'm a english with my family actually filipino and i do not understand but i understand

omg windmill :D!, that what you meant in your yume 2kki live stream

I think in my case, the English classes started in preschool.

Yup, when I was 4 years old, a very rare case in public schools in Mexico. _.
They usually teach English in private schools (or public) from elementary school, but when I was a child they taught us from preschool to university.

I was a native Chinese speaker in America. Needless to say, I had learned English real fast

Im a turkish romanian who lives in germany and is fluent in english... So U can Imagine how fucked up my accent is...

as a 14yo guy in the netherlands i can say.. i knew elnglish 50% at age 9

MALAYSIA EVERYWHEEEEEEEERE 💅💅💅💅💅💅💅

The lsynq always threw me off in the cartoons when I watched them XD

It's DUTCHLAND!!!

i had a dutch friend on neopets

Yuunarii doesn’t need other languages accents. Other languages need Yuunarii

Can kind of relate in Canada, where we have French as a second language, we didnt get proper education until grade 9, so age 14. Prior to that we just got handed an ipad and the teacher would say "idk just do duolingo or whatever"

I started learning English at the age of 11

I didn't start learning English till I was 27 or 28 years old. Mostly it's just a technical or literary language for me. When I speak it is with a very heavy Eastern European accent. Though funnily when I speak with other Baltic or Slavic speakers using English we have no problem understanding each other. Native monoglott English speakers I have always felt have poor language skills generally. Perhaps not even being able to speak their only language competently.

You sound fine.

Interesingly enough Czech dub used to be quite solid. Lip synch is thing that id do quite okay. Since I am kinda used to listen song I don´t understand when my english start to become usable a bit I start to listen a lot of Japan music.

Do you know who max verstappen

Hold on
Your...
Dutch?
/indonesian flashbacks to that onr time

And yes I'm being indirect since i wanna know if you actually knew what happened

Why is no one talking about how this video is like the best quality i have ever seen

I'm brazilian, and i'm trying to study english by myself, cause the school just teach us the verb to be, this is horrible! The internet teaches me more in few years.

I have a lot of Brazilian accent when i speak english, and i really don't like it, but i still living in Brazil, so nobody in real life wants to talk to me in english.

yuunari are you also from the netherlands?

Well, I'm brazilian, and since I was little I was always surrounded by english content (mainly in school too), but when I went to 3rd grade, my school didn't just teach english, but spanish too! And in a beautiful day, we were having spanish class learning about "subjects in spanish"
and when I've seen that instead of the subject PORTUGUESE, there was SPANISH, wicth suprised me cuz I thought the world learned portugese too (bruh), and I was like: "Teacher, why is spanish, not portuguese?"
and my teacher anwsered:
"Oh dear, everyone in their country learns their own language, here in brazil, portuguese! mexico, spanish and and so it goes..." I was very impressed at the time with this anwser lmao
and when I was in 5th grade, spanish classes was non-existent anymore, only english
(and I need to say, english was very easy for me to learn and read, but talk? that's another story)

Scheiß auf Englisch, Deutsch ist die beste Sprache der Welt. 😎😎

I know how u felt, I used to speak Cajun French(a segment of the French language in the south of North America) when I was little.

We pronounce oux like oh exaple: Arceanoux (Ar•ssen•oh)

I remember one thing in particular: I used to play some Nintendo DS games where you have to choose the language of play everytime you startup the game. This on had only the English names of the languages it offered: English, french, dutch and German. Since I'm German I obviously wanted the game to be in German. But since dutch looks like the German word for German ("deutsch") I always chose dutch... And what can I say, I didn't understand the game fully but good enough to get through and I understood more than the English version.

I am Brazillian (yeah, south americans exists) and my mom is an esl (english as second language) teacher, so since young, i had some english knowledge. I love my culture , when is referenced in media, and like talking in portuguese (because brazilian isn't a language, we speak portuguese dummies) Yeah, my family isn't the most BRAZILLIAN HYPER CULTURE, but we are proud of being brazilian and apreciate lots of parts of it culture. Mainly the north-east culture because i live there and the culture is unique.

Well here in Argentine we get English as a subject since 3rd year of primary school and the fact my dad went to England when he was 18 gave me a lot of advantage in the language so by age 12 i could watch media with no subtitles, but i guess nobody cares

Now I'm learning german as a third language for studies so now I'm getting to experience the pain that is aquaring language from zero

As a native English speaker, this was very insightful :O

Grappig om te zien hoe het onderwijs gedurende de jaren verandert. Toen ik op de basisschool zat (ongeveer 8 jaar terug), werd in groep 7 al begonnen met Engelse lessen. Nu krijgt mijn nicht al in groep 1 Engelse lessen...

To be fair, I am very pleased with my current English vocabulary. Owning that CEFR C1-level certificate does really make a huge difference on the job market.

Hey, I kinda forgot to ask right after upload but.. To those who also grew up non-English, what were some of your experiences?
And if you did grow up English, what is that like?