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I can totally empathize with finding it hard to find the motivation for something like this (despite being reflexively quite judgemental), and I wish you luck /

I can totally empathize with finding it hard to find the motivation for something like this (despite being reflexively quite judgemental), and I wish you luck / success in your learning journey! I suspect you'll find that between your knowledge of English and Swedish, you'll discover a lot of connections to those languages in German that may make it easier and maybe even fund to learn the vocabulary. The grammar will remain a pain in the butt, but at least once you get the vocabulary down, you can move onto more stimulating learning material than flash cards. > However, I'm not a native English speaker, the other languages I speak is Japanese and Swedish. Fair enough, Maybe I should just change my complaint to a complaint about the ubiquity of English. Or maybe it's just a silly complaint any way I slice it, but it just sometimes feels bad to me to see English everywhere (even though I am a native English speaker myself)

shinryuu 2y ago
> but at least once you get the vocabulary down, you can move onto more stimulating learning material than flash cards. I think that's the plan, and also get a feeling that you're making some kind of progress. A couple of weeks ago I had a meeting with a German person that spoke Swedish, and I really stumbled my way through the little German I know. Very painful. I hope increasing the vocabulary with example sentences will broaden that and give me somewhat of a confidence boost. You've got to start somewhere..