Good point about cultures. Whilst I had some English in school what actually pushed me is overheard phrases in awfully dubbed Hollywood movies, software (since

Good point about cultures. Whilst I had some English in school what actually pushed me is overheard phrases in awfully dubbed Hollywood movies, software (since translations usually are of a poorer quality and often not available at all), learning to program, etc. Hell, some of the most interesting things in the world for me are in English e.g. Wikipedia and most of my favorite books. A few times I've tried to study German, Esperanto, Polish and while I like some aspects of those languages I never had the incentive to keep it up.