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And you still learned more than most Americans. Except maybe Cheerleading, American Football, how to behave during a school shooting, and bullying (or how survive it).
I learned English because in 2006-2010 most video games were poorly localized and when youtube became a thing most of the popular German gaming youtubers were absolute cringe so i watched English channels instead.
Compared to my German friends my English is above average despite my English teacher in highschool being sick most of the time and the classes not being substituted with English classes. This solely lies in my interest/necessity to engage with English content online. We had French as a second language and despite the teachers actually being there and being good teachers for this educational system, i remember almost nothing.
A self made man. I respect that
But it's still thanks to the context, just a context outside of school. It's not like s/he suddenly out of the blue started looking for study material in Tagalog and did that. Games are the best motivator (and great due to how interactive they are) No man is an island yada yada. Auf eigener Faust kommt man nicht weit wenn die Faust völlig leer ist oder insert was klugeres here. Btw personally I was helped a lot by both school, emotionally as well as language-wise, and pop media. Yay for nice teachers and peers!