I'm a Systems Reliability and DevOps engineer for Netdata Inc. When not working, I enjoy studying linguistics and history, playing video games, and cooking all kinds of international cuisine.
I'm in the process of learning Swedish. Short list of reasons:
I'm part Scandinavian by descent (My mother's grandfather was Finnish by birth, but primarily Swedish by heritage).
Most of my favorite bands are from Sweden or Finland.
I find it particularly interesting from a comparative linguistics perspective. Much like English, it's a Germanic language that's been heavily influenced by French over the years.
I'm using Babel right now, which I've found to be reasonably good, if a bit pricey. Unfortunately I've only had somewhat limited opportunities to practice, though Sveriges Radio International has a news program intended for people learning the language (Radio Sweden på lätt svenska (literally 'Radio Sweden in simple Swedish')) which has been very helpful for listening comprehension. I am also working on saving up for a trip to Stockholm though (and probably eventually trips to Göteborg and Falun too), so I should have some very good opportunity to practice eventually.
I've also been considering taking the time to learn Spanish (fourth most spoken language in the world if you include L2 speakers, and I'm way to lazy to take the time to learn Hindi (at number 3) or Mandarin (at number 2)), but I think I'm going to get better at Swedish first (especially considering that I can kind of understand basic Spanish even though I can't speak it)
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I'm in the process of learning Swedish. Short list of reasons:
I'm using Babel right now, which I've found to be reasonably good, if a bit pricey. Unfortunately I've only had somewhat limited opportunities to practice, though Sveriges Radio International has a news program intended for people learning the language (Radio Sweden på lätt svenska (literally 'Radio Sweden in simple Swedish')) which has been very helpful for listening comprehension. I am also working on saving up for a trip to Stockholm though (and probably eventually trips to Göteborg and Falun too), so I should have some very good opportunity to practice eventually.
I've also been considering taking the time to learn Spanish (fourth most spoken language in the world if you include L2 speakers, and I'm way to lazy to take the time to learn Hindi (at number 3) or Mandarin (at number 2)), but I think I'm going to get better at Swedish first (especially considering that I can kind of understand basic Spanish even though I can't speak it)