Like many people here, I’m not English. But I do speak English, and WoW is a big reason why.
Having such as vast world, with countless items (and their description!) and so much character dialogue is a great opportunity to learn plenty of vocabulary and better your oral skills.
Did you learn a language thanks to WoW? Are you in the process of doing so? Or is it something you consider doing at some point?
I learned english by watching dragon ball. Practiced on MMOs and other games, and media in general.
English is Native-mishi mou 
My english was fairly good back in school bc i was always interested in it. I could write pretty well and speaking was good but i was insecure. When i moved to Draenor and found friends i still talk to everyday it got a lot better but there’s a lot of room for improvement still
Pretty much my experience except for the finding friends part.
When i first talked to them i was very quiet bc i didn’t know what to say. It gets better with time and one of them seeked me out every day to talk to me so i got used to doing smalltalk 
For me, it’s not a matter of confidence actually. I just happen to have a deep-seeded hatred for the rest of mankind. I try my best to conceal it though!
Sounds like a confidence problem to me.
Is like me saying im not afraid of insects and I just hate them, but I ain’t fooling anyone.
I’m English so wow never taught me a language, however it is responsible for significantly improving how quickly I type.
Learned english thanks to Uncharted series (PS3), TV shows like Lost, Heroes, Prison Break etc… and plenty of PC games. Not fluent, not terrible.
Except it’s really not. I’m in college and I’m always up for the annoying oral presentations that everyone hates.
I just have an incredibly inflated ego and I don’t feel like most people are worth my time.
I mean, you can both be English and learn a new language. Nothing prevents you from switching the client’s language.
Ah, fair enough, that happens too
I learnt English in school but I read plenty of science books specifically math and software which built my vocabulary although thanks to the friends I met in WoW I speak fluent English.
I learned English from playing games, but I don’t think I can give all the credit to WoW on that one, it was just gaming as a hobby that developed my English. Before I started playing games my English was absolutely horrible, although we had already started learning it in schools. Never felt like school did much in that regard anyway, since later on English classes turned from torture to “doing anything except paying attention”.
Well fair enough I appreciate your honesty and the first step to finding a cure is being aware you have a problem.Also I don’t get along with people like you IRL because of inflated ego thing but I still respect that you at least acknowledge the problem instead of ignoring it.
I learned English by reading the quest logs in Vanilla 
lots and lots of them. I now live in UK, and all started in Azeroth. 
thanks Blizzard.
As a Brit, I find that the level of English used in the forums, or in-game, far exceeds that of a lot of native English speakers back here in the UK 
Not even joking. You’d be surprised (or not).
WoW has piqued my interest in ‘Russian’/Cyrillic script, but I doubt I could find time to learn it/them as a language.
Most people in Europe aren’t native speakers of english. I am polish and learned the basics of english at school and improved it via various activites related to my hobbies when i started going to the internet. Most of the information there about tranformers or programming was in english so it forced me to practice reading. I started watching movies and tv shows in english without subtitles this allowed me to practice understanding spoken english.
WoW, various forums and other online games allow you to practice actual communication. But I don’t think you can fully learn the language just from that. You can learn words and phrases but to learn grammar you need some sort of a course.
That’s assuming there’s anything to fix in the first place. I don’t see it as a problem, but rather as a personality trait.
From people in general I think. The disgustingly high cost of the game itself & the forum format are both factors that lead to a more adult community I believe.
Oh, it goes waaay back.
While music and movies/series did have an impact on my English skills, it was Warcraft: Orcs and Humans that actually played a major part in it.
And after that Warcraft 2 and Diablo.
Diablo had such a rich narrative…it made me look in a dictionary very often and learn new words.
But don’t forget…how good you are in a foreign language is determined by four categories: reading, writing, listening, speaking.
While some are good in all four, there are people that might lack the skill and practice in some category.