[unofficial weekender] Music was my first love

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@crazyredcoat for me it was more or less a necessity to learn English early on. Thanks to cartoons. When we got cable TV in the mid 80ies and we got Sky Channel an with it the Sunday morning cartoons (and later the DJ Cat show in the afternoons)

So if I wanted to watch Mask, Transformers, Jason and the Wheeled Warriors, StarCom, Bravestarr and everything else and understand what’s going on I needed to catch on. And since English is almost everywhere there never was a lack of practice.

Same goes for reading Dutch. They also came  with cable TV and most of the foreign show only have subtitles… so my mind needed to go from German to Dutch (subtitle) via English (audio)

@blinky465 I took a look at that album when they published the long announcement… I barely know 5 of the artists by name. And definitely only could tell 3 or 4 that I actually heard… Most of the teased covers don’t really sell it to me…

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@crazyredcoat I learned them all as a kid.
Even before we got language classes I already was familliar with German tv (the joke that my dialect is close to German is not that wrong). I remember seeing ‘Fall guy’ on German tv. And I think I also saw Star Trek Next Generation.

Also keep in mind that we have subtitles for every foreign language movie, which really helps in learning a language.
When I discovered BBC I learned a lot thanks to their subtitles for the deaf (seeing and hearing the words helps).

At school we got French, German and English for a year.

Today kids start learning English at a very young age. I know my nephew (15) learned French because they often went on holiday in France.

Net result is that pretty much everyone of my generation in the Netherlands knows at least one additional language (usually English).

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Yeah when I was learning French in school I missed the first year so I’ve struggled with it ever since. With learning Norwegian I’ve used song lyrics with their translations and also every now and then when I’m feeling confident enough I sometimes try and read a web article written in the language. I guess because I spoke English as a first language it was always simpler when I was younger to ask if someone spoke it rather than try and learn a new language myself…which just seems like I was being rude now that I’m older. 😛

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