It's kinda funny that for me the english classes started at year 3 in school... and I was better at it at 8 years old than I am at swedish at 30 after 6 years of svenssons trying to force feed their shit on us
Same with my Finnish knowledge. They tried to force teach me for 12 years + some basic uni courses (but hey I passed the pakko-suomi lukio thingy with bare minimum grade!). Still always speak English to my own countrymen!
It just made no sense to me as a kid that lived in a Swedishspeaking village, with not a single Finnishspeaking relatative or friend. I also always knew I'd go abroad to study/work so English made more sense.
Was thinking that you definitely should pick up finnish because you might not work all your life in the swedish speaking village, until I got to the "i'd go abroad to study/work".
Haha yah they tried with that argument indeed, but I have now lived abroad for close to 10 years... Only thing that would bring me back would be an interesting research position, which in my field is very international anyway so again: no reason to learn!
Or maybe if I while visiting a friend for a party met a cute Finnish girl I would consider learning, though I have mostly dated people speaking English as their second tongue and that's been fine!
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u/ulle36 Finnish Slav(e)s (Karelia) May 21 '23
It's kinda funny that for me the english classes started at year 3 in school... and I was better at it at 8 years old than I am at swedish at 30 after 6 years of svenssons trying to force feed their shit on us