Depends on how much available time you've. Since 4 Sep 2004 (so 10+ years), I'm working non stop, everyday, including weekends and holidays for at least 14 hours a day. So, I don't think that I've even a free minute for such actions.

That's very good and I was doing it when I was 20.... 30.... 40... even 50. But now being on my 59 there is no courage. And what you read now is what I learned alone. Reading dictionaries. Yes dictionaries. At 1960-1970 being a child of a 5 children family no money for Foreign language Institutes. So I count as miracle even the fact that I can talk and understand the basics. But really no power for learning more, anything, not just English.

Well, I really think it is not that much "slang" or acronyms used around here that it would really impact the time budget. But I really salute your learning english as an autodidact - you speak/write it really well. At least if someone who picked it up at school and original version videos as third language can tell...

Really thank you for what you wrote. And is not only English. I learned coding on the same way. Reading books. And it was much more difficult as the only books available (talking for 1984) were in English so I had by hand my English dictionary and first I had to try to understand what the phrase means in Greek and then try to test the examples.

Dammit money :(

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...lol.... Well this was my only help. That I found many Greek words in lessons.

That's actually funny to me, because books in english about programming are Greek to me.....:)

Ahahahahaha......... You made my day my dear. And didn't awoke up with good mood. Thank you for making me laugh:)

@NickTheGreek - I think your English is pretty good. A few glitches & misspellings here and there but that is to be expected. :)

@cellarius - I'm actually VERY SLOWLY learning German and I mean S-L-O-W-L-Y LOL.

No - you probably mean L-A-N-G-S-A-M ;)

LOL JA! Exactly!

"Wir lernen Deutsch mit Hilfe von Bilde und Saitplatten und lernen..." (or something like this :)

I was 12yo when for first time I tried to learn Deutsch. Visafone or Dictafone was the name of that method. Pitty that I had nobody to help me and Deutsch is a difficult language even if in Grammar looks like Greek.

I spent 9 months in Germany in 1986 and learned NONE of the language, but the girl I hooked up with who spoke little English was speaking fluently in 4 months. Of course, my English is the Redneck dialect ;)