I had a friend in high school whose family moved to America from Vietnam when they were around 5. They said they learned English from watching TV all day.
Edit: Didn’t realize the A stood for adult, not anime… Whoops.
So did I, and a lot of people I grew up with. Cartoon Network, Discovery Channel and later on, the Internet.
My teenage kids are fluent as well, and that’s almost all of it from watching media. First cartoons and movies (I keep all my streaming services in the native language, and most of them are in English), and now… YouTube.
I grew up in a border town in northern Mexico. We got a bunch of the TV channels from the US town across the border. I learned English watching those American channels.
I had a friend in high school whose family moved to America from Vietnam when they were around 5. They said they learned English from watching TV all day.
Edit: Didn’t realize the A stood for adult, not anime… Whoops.
So did I, and a lot of people I grew up with. Cartoon Network, Discovery Channel and later on, the Internet.
My teenage kids are fluent as well, and that’s almost all of it from watching media. First cartoons and movies (I keep all my streaming services in the native language, and most of them are in English), and now… YouTube.
I knew a couple of brothers who learned English from wild world of sports
I grew up in a border town in northern Mexico. We got a bunch of the TV channels from the US town across the border. I learned English watching those American channels.