I’m non-native (native German, learned English in school). Nearly everything I read or write is English, though, and I’ve probably read more English books than most of the native speakers.

I am Nepali. I am probably the only Nepali using such obscure platform. And I say it proudly to others. They think I am ninja, and ignore me. 😝

Considering the high overlap between Lemmy users and internet savvy people, I would say that we are not a good representation.

Native Indonesian and Javanese. Almost all Indonesian speaks one of the local languages + Indonesian as the country has 700+ of unique languages.

I’m danish…

German and Russian native speaker here, so English is my third language.

I learned english because i’m deaf and french subtitles were scarse. Futhermore, i always wanted to read the latest scans :)

Hungarian here, learned in school and through games/videos

I had to learn English from a young age because it was the primary language used from kindergarten to high school, and even in college.

I improved my comprehension by reading articles and online discussion forums, as well as by watching movies, series, broadcasts, and YouTube videos.

English is my secondary language, but I’ve always been drawn to it. I live in Denmark and we don’t dub TV shows, but subtitle them instead. Also I started reading novels in English at a young age, so that has surely helped.

German here.

Basically 80-90% of my media consumption is in English.
I search (mostly) in English, read documentation in English and document my own stuff in a mix of English and German (we call this Denglisch in Germany (compound of (D)eutsch+Englisch)

I always cringe when I see native speakers confuse “it’s” and “its”, “their”, “they’re” and “there” and all the other subtleties of their language. But then again, I’m a pedantic German and maybe Americans are so anti-education already that they’re cool with that.

I’m from germany. I watch a lot of YouTube. Also I work as software developer, so I need to read many english manuals. Wich don’t means, that my english is great. But it could also be worse.

I’m German. Back in my day, we had 9 years of English classes in school and from what I’ve heard it’s even more now. I was lucky to have a teacher who had spent a couple of years in the UK so he had much less of a German accent than most other teachers at our school and was also able to give us a lot of insight into how people actually speak, compared to the rather formal and stilted examples in our textbooks.

Between social media, movies, shows and a job in software engineering, I would say that on most days I read and listen to more English than German.

I’m from Spain and English is my third language (currently trying to learn Portuguese)

I’ve learn it with music (Judas Priest🤟), movies and series.