I was born in Poland then at age 11 I moved to Germany and later at age 27 I moved to Sweden. My sister is two years younger, she had it easier to learn German

I was born in Poland then at age 11 I moved to Germany and later at age 27 I moved to Sweden. My sister is two years younger, she had it easier to learn German but she doesn't want to speak Polish if sho doesn't need to. I don't have that. I had also big problems learning English at school, because I had to learn English in German which I didn't understand in the beginning, and later I was always behind. I was really bad in English when I moved to Sweden which helped me to learn Swidish faster because people wouldn't use English to communicate with me, which swedes do all the time if you speak English but not Swedish. I learned English later by mostly watching TV, which is only subtitled in Sweden, because I wasn't able to read that fast in Swedish, I started listening to the English original. Later most of the studies here at university were in English (at least in Computer Science), so I was forced to use my English and improve it. And later at work the office language was English too. Anyway, I do even have an anegdote from my Grandfather who was captured by the Russians during WW2. He was in the Wehrmacht, but because he was from Silecia he spoke some polish too, which helped him during his time in captivity in Siberia. Because he could translate, they gave him bigger portions of food, so he always said: "You never know where life leads you and every language you speak is like an extra hand."