English Thread

In this thread, we attempt to learn to read, write, and speak English, a language which would be very useful to know. It is widely spoken throughout the world.

Do you speak English? Are you fluent? What resources did you use to learn? Can you give some examples in this thread? Posts some useful links.

Let's help each other out and learn a new language.

Do you speak English?

That's strange question for this board.

Are you fluent?

For from it. Probably, around intermediate/upper intermediate.
And I'm not used to speaking English, so my accent would be awful.

What resources did you use to learn?

I mostly learned it during highschool: we had quite awesome English teachers. Last two years we didn't speak in our native language(Russian) during the classes when it was not completely necessary.

I mostly just chat on reddit, 4chan, et al.

Can you give some examples in this thread?

If only. For words I usually use google's "define: term" search. For grammar, when I bothered to check it, I use google too.

For Russian speakers I can advise Multitran, e.g.:

http://www.multitran.ru/c/m.exe?l1=1&l2=2&s=chick

It shows not only translation, but also context for the translation.