How did you ESLs get so good at English when you don't even use it in real life

How did you ESLs get so good at English when you don't even use it in real life

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This is real life

you may have to be a brain dead invalid to not comprehend basic English

shitposting, yt tutorials, american tv, reading books

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>you may have to be a brain dead invalid to not comprehend basic Chinese

my English unironically improved thanks to /lit/ but then it deteriorated after I started posting on Any Forums

>implying
My dude, I unironically used to translate manga from English to Portuguese back when I was 15 or whatever. I also used to read technical programming books in English.

Hardcore furry vore snuff ERP forced me to improve my grammar.
It was eat or be eaten.

And definitely this, my English definitely got worse after I started reading and posting shit on the internet.

on an average work day I speak English for 10 hours and Romanian for 0-20 minutes

Memes aside I basically watched too much American TV
Seriously just 2 years earlier I still had issues figuring out like 50% of what they’re talking about while watching Fox News. Now I can understand for 99% of the time for news channels and about 95% for other media (movies, series, sports, etc.) without any subtitles

i play western video game watch show and foreign porn. some books

i dont even talk to people in real life lmao

my mom is deaf
and nobody wants to be my friend because i look like a different ethnicity than them

i never seen a vagina

I'm from NYC

I spend more time on the internet than in real life
At this point I can almost say that most of the waking hours in my life have been spent in front of a computer

I know this is a thing, but I just dont get how you can learn a language from listening to it when you aren't familiar with it at all. I know 2 Euros who learnt english just but watching Top Gun over and over again.
How do you know what each word means? Is it singling out certain words and going by context?

english is taught in school from early age, so you get the basics from there. rest is from all the media we consume

Probably. And I think it could a good way to learn because that’s basically how a toddler learns to speak any language. Of course it’s not the same so it still requires having some sort of at least basic vocabulary previously.
I actually didn’t have any issues with stuff like vocabulary or grammar but my listening skills used to be pretty terrible

just inpoot
i learned russian and german from listening and i don't even know what a case is

youtube is real life for millions of third worlders

i do, i go to El Centro Historico of my city and i talk with the gringos all the time (even if my english it's pretty shitty, but two beers and it's enough to hold a good convo)

really? how do you know that?