Playing videogames, asking my parents the words I didn't know Talking to people I met on a stick figure Flash animation portal using Google Translate (this was

Playing videogames, asking my parents the words I didn't know Talking to people I met on a stick figure Flash animation portal using Google Translate (this was ~12 years ago so I was constantly made fun of but learned a lot!) Watching films at first with Portuguese subtitles, then with English subtitles, then with no subtitles. Reading books in English. At this point I could read pretty well, write decently, but my pronunciation was terrible. Before university my parents sent me to Vancouver for a month to have English lessons. Pronunciation and listening improved a lot! During university I did a year abroad in Birmingham, UK. Talking to people with strong accents during the first week was tough, but got easy after that. My English is noticeably not very good, but I'm pretty happy with it considering I had no more than a month of real lessons.