Aww shucks. Blame it on a lot of movies, I guess. Plus a lot of reading in English, that certainly helped. I'd just file certain lines and phrases inside my mind, and built from there. And a skill for foreign languages runs in the family, I suppose.
It's actually interesting, I'll take an old English book that belonged to my mom or aunt, and there'll often be little scraps of papers inside where they'd write down a certain expression and its meaning. It's weird because I take such expressions (and their meanings) for granted, so I guess that really speaks to how much access to language younger generations here have got, eh?
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Well that also explains it. If mom and gran were learning it would've faciliated your learning as well. Just by it being familiar.
I think most of learning a new language is really about familiarity and not being embarressed to make mistakes.
Access to everything! Yes!