2019-05-26, 01:33 PM
As a finn, I speak Finnish natively and have been force-fed Swedish since primary school. I'm mediocre at Swedish.
I studied a few courses of Russian in high school and know the cyrillic alphabet and a few basic words and sentences.
I currently live with my German girlfriend with whom I speak English. My university studies are also often very English-heavy so I use more English than Finnish in my day-to-day life. We live in Finland, though, so not like my Finnish would be going anywhere.
Despite the German girlfriend, my German is still almost non-existent. Considering I pretty much never properly studied it, I've picked up surprisingly much from visiting Germany a total of 10 weeks so far, but I really can't speak a single sentence.
I always was interested in languages and became fluent in English at a very young age, mostly because of the internet and the international social connections I made through it. I think my biggest obstacle in learning new / improving on my current languages is that except for Finnish and English, my brain really doesn't want to learn new vocabulary at all for whatever reason. Everything else about Swedish I was always good/average at, but come time for the word test and I barely score any points. Every time. This, of course, then always reflected in my course grades and makes learning Swedish difficult in general, as not knowing even half the words I've already been taught makes studying excruciatingly slow.
I studied a few courses of Russian in high school and know the cyrillic alphabet and a few basic words and sentences.
I currently live with my German girlfriend with whom I speak English. My university studies are also often very English-heavy so I use more English than Finnish in my day-to-day life. We live in Finland, though, so not like my Finnish would be going anywhere.
Despite the German girlfriend, my German is still almost non-existent. Considering I pretty much never properly studied it, I've picked up surprisingly much from visiting Germany a total of 10 weeks so far, but I really can't speak a single sentence.
I always was interested in languages and became fluent in English at a very young age, mostly because of the internet and the international social connections I made through it. I think my biggest obstacle in learning new / improving on my current languages is that except for Finnish and English, my brain really doesn't want to learn new vocabulary at all for whatever reason. Everything else about Swedish I was always good/average at, but come time for the word test and I barely score any points. Every time. This, of course, then always reflected in my course grades and makes learning Swedish difficult in general, as not knowing even half the words I've already been taught makes studying excruciatingly slow.