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When I was in middle school my english skills were terrible, I barely passed my english classes. At some point I was interested to build my own PC, so I did research and watched tons of videos of other people doing it, those were mainly in english and helped me a lot to learn the language. Just like you I did not use a translator, it was not necessary to understand the key messages of the videos. After some time my english skills improved substantially and in school I never had problems with english again

Not particularly tech related but these books made me change my attitude towards life: - mans search for meaning by victor frankl, book about holocaust written by a psychiatrist. Quite well known, I guess I do not need to say too much. - A Long Way Gone, written by an ex child soldier, quite fascinating to me what these people had to endure. - "SOS" Emotions-Lexikon (apparently only in german) I got this for christmas and its quite a cool book to help deal with your emotions.