• Signtist@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I had a friend in high school whose family moved to America from Vietnam when they were around 5. They said they learned English from watching TV all day.

    Edit: Didn’t realize the A stood for adult, not anime… Whoops.

    • beerclue@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      So did I, and a lot of people I grew up with. Cartoon Network, Discovery Channel and later on, the Internet.

      My teenage kids fluent as well, and that’s almost all of it from watching media. First cartoons and movies (I keep all my streaming services in the native language, and most of them are in English), and now… YouTube.

  • kadup@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    It must certainly help that the average lenght for a JAV is about two to three hours

  • Gork@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    I think his vocabulary is going to be significantly stronger in some areas than others.