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What use would they have for me? I've been here since age 4. Skill set is old & I'm poor.
Seems it might be easier to bring about the Twitularity there though.
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Depends what you do. Plenty of ways to get a foot in the door, though. It's not like you'll die the moment something goes wrong if you have to work some shitty-ass job.
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My pronunciation is good but my vocabulary & reading is that of a child so I'd sound like a tard
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This is my exact situation in Poland. People have to intuit that I'm a foreigner, otherwise they just assume I'm especially stupid unless I tell them.
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All the same, if you have some old synaptic goodies buried deep, you'll have an easier time with the language.
It also helps that the grammar is so close to English, even if you do it wrong you'll sound mostly correct. So learning vocab in and off itself is all that's needed.
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I can make almost every vowel sound under the sun (with the exception of Danish weirdo-vowels, which are fairly impossible).
I suspect it has something to do with knowing Swahili as a toddler. Lost it a long time ago, but that's still very much core network-type stuff.
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Interesting.
I've always thought Swedish sounded like Norsk w/a bit of German while Danish sounded like Norsk w/a bit of epileptic seizure
One of my half sisters & her hubby lived in South Africa for a time. Both half sisters learned French as kids when our Dad worked in Paris
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I have no real opinion, except for the true-actually truism that Danish sounds like Norwegian spoken with a potato in your mouth.
I, uh, may have verified this empirically.
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My father's 2nd wife was Danish so I heard quite a bit in my youth when I would go there in the summers
My sis did much better in keeping up w/family & friends. She was born in UK though right after the WW2 & so can't stay more than 3 months at a time.