Kinda unrelated but not really, the movie 13 going on 30 have a really cool name in Portuguese: De Repente 30. It really speaks to the power of language, because if you retranslate it to English it sounds soooooooo lame.
Suddenly Thirty 
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I am always in awe with people who learn German as a foreign language and actually manage declinations and such because those are sooooooooo hard if you don’t grow up with them.
And don’t get me started on French grammar, I have really good French skills (like B2-C1) but my grammar is atrocious. Teaches you that the most important part of a language is never following the rules but understanding and communicating with people. In French, I make at least three mistakes per sentence but I can talk like a waterfall and get my point across
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You see, what’s funny about that is that those Daleks are actually being very polite! They’re using Sie/the formal you
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Not sure if I said this in my introduction post but I am from Croatia,just saying here.
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I studied German at school for six years (from 2009 to 2015) and had it as one of my seven subjects in my A-levels (or Abitur in Germany). I received the highest grade! I’ve sadly not used a lot of German since then, so I’ve forgotten a lot…
I wanted to finally study French at university, but I guess I wasn’t very motivated, because I took the first beginner course twice and failed it both times before giving up 
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There are a number of languages I would like to learn, but as I don’t know anyone else who speaks them[1], it would be useless to bother teaching myself.
and, for some of them, there isn’t any teaching material readily available ↩︎
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Your country is part of one of my hyperfixations oop
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What languages would they be?
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Russian, Vulcan, Amharic, German, Igbo
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I used to be able to speak Russian (can still count to 10 and say a few basic phrases) and can recite the German numberwang sketch if that helps
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I taught myself a fair amount of Russian years ago, but as I had no one to speak to, I stopped.
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I can count to 10 in five languages (not including English)
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oh really? its glad to know that theres other fans of doctor who that know where i live.One small part of trivia : 2 episodes of Dr Who filmed here,Vampires of Venice and Vincent and the Doctor.
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I can’t even imagine having to learn English as a second language. I’m learning Spanish right now, which I think has some pretty simple grammar rules, and I’m still struggling. English makes no sense at least 50% of the time, probably more.
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I’ve never struggled, though that might be because of how close it is to Swedish in structure. Also, you run into English everywhere, every day, these days - on the internet, in music, movies, and TV. So you’re very exposed to it and kind of learn it automatically.
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I found English relatively easy to learn, mostly by exposure. Grammatically, the tenses were hard at first (especially the difference between, for example, simple past and past progressive since we don’t have progressive forms in German) but since there aren’t any grammatical genders and the verbs for the most part follow clear rules, I didn’t find it too hard. A lot of that is just how much English is around though! I read my first books in English at like eleven, started watching movies and series in English, spent my whole time online in English. So I picked things up quickly as a teenager. What’s funny in that regard though, is that I’m really good at understanding and writing, but I rarely speak English, so whenever I do I get really tongue-tied. My mouth just isn’t used to making those noises.
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Me, too. Never struggled, mainly because the vast amount of resources you can find online.
And I always feel that it’s easier to understand a text in it’s original language. I try to read my One Piece in Japanese despite it usually takes longer. There’s alway something lost in the translation, especially Chinese are so unlike most of the languages form cultures I’d like to learn about. Like, we don’t differentiate genders in third person pronouns, at least not until about a century ago. And that’s only in written form, because people are encountering problems in translastion. Getting misgendered by pronouns simply doesn’t happen
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Yeah, the breakup of Yugoslavia is one of my special interests
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Oh no, English is easy to learn. I’m not getting an A+++ from teacher Delta anytime soon, but it’s easy.
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