Mykonos

We just call them boxers and pants really. The term that we get mocked for is knickers, but I don't think anyone uses that unless they're referring to something worn by a girl under the age of puberty.

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Swedish - Native speaker

Danish and Norwegian - Fairly understandable when I'm not tired due to their close similarity to Swedish. Norwegian is easier to understand than Danish.

English - Pretty good. I understand almost every word except for technical terms. When speaking I have (unlike most of my fellow Swedes) almost no accent, which is rather sweet as I can pretend to be an American when I want to. Sometimes however when I speak I forget words that I actually know, but in that moment have escaped my mind. My spelling is also a bit messed up at times; for example I tend to mix up C and S in words.

German - Studied it for five years in the Swedish equivalents to junior high and high school, and another six months full time at uni. After this uni course I went to Berlin for a week with a friend, and I could have very fluent conversations in German. This was however more than two years ago, and now my vocabulary is much more limited, which means that anything beyond a simple conversation is too difficult. I have little doubt though that if I were to move to Germany or something, my German would return rather quickly.

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jazzhater

I try to learn French and Polish at the moment.
I know Russian fluently.

adidasss

Bump! Does anyone know of any good resources for self-learning languages through technology? Either online courses, youtube or what have you?

At some point I did an online Spanish class at Instituto Cervantes https://eee.cervantes.es/en/index.asp which was quite good. Any other suggestions, for whatever foreign language?

In the meantime since this thread was created, I've advanced significantly in Spanish, primarily because of my Spanish partner (really helps with practicing) to the point where I can read (slowly) books in Spanish, which of course helps a lot with the vocabulary.

I've learned some (Brazilian) Portuguese while living in Brazil, so now I can read (and it's quite similar to Spanish so knowing more Spanish helps) and try to maintain some level by reading newspapers etc. Would like to improve though. Not comfortable enough to speak it except in my head...

Haven't advanced at all in Italian and would like to start French (probably a bit too ambitious at this point in my life but hey! Making grand plans you then don't accomplish is fun!).

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Marie Monday

That's cool. I had some vague plans to learn Russian and improve my French during the pandemic. That didn't happen of course, but this thread may provide the necessary inspiration.

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jwb

Tried learning mandarin via pimsler, super hard. Gave up. Was sorta fun though.

Then tried a bit of Spanish. I can understand it better than mandarin but still not great at spanish either. I have in laws that constantly speak in spanish and I can sorta piece together bits of what they're saying but I can't speak it worth a damn myself. They're Colombian so their spanish is a bit cleaner and easier to understand than some other spanish people I meet though. My sister is getting pretty fluent in it.

The Batlord

In public school Spanish a Y was a Y but then I went to military school and the teacher from Venezuela turned Y's into J's and it ****ed me up.

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Frownland

German seems you can just cram as much bull**** as you want into a single word and call it good which sounds fun af

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Native speaker-Spanish and Armenian, which is very nice, cause I can read and write in a non-Latin alphabet

My mother is Armenian but she moved to Spain when the USSR fell. I know I used to complain that because of Franco's dictatorship my parents couldn't enjoy/understand some types of music/fashion. But this can also be said about the USSR, I mean, "capitalisitc culture" was strongly restricted and banned although by the late 80s there wasn't any censorship (according to my mother).

English-I think I can express myself clearly although not always in a grammatically correct way (B2 level)

German-I've been learning it for 3 years at school. A2/B1 level

I never use websites or anything like that. I learn thanks to parents and teachers. The rest of media sources aren't helpful, for me.

Marie Monday

that's really awesome, I'd love to be bilingual in different language groups
same for Dutch, and you're absolutely right. It's a real pity that English doesn't embrace the wonders of compoundwordarchitecture

oh btw fun fact: due to the spread of English young Dutch people are actually starting to split up words that should be compounds according to Dutch grammar and it sucks

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