Hi!
Most likely nobody will remember me, but I was somewhat active on the HTLAL-forums a long time ago. Then life kind of got in the way of my independent language learning and I haven't done anything actively with any of "my" languages in the past five years or so. But now I'm more or less forced back in here since I have taken up studying Finnish more seriously. The background is the following:
I'm a native Swedish-speaker residing in Sweden with my Finnish wife and 10-month-old daughter that we are planning to raise bilingually. The last few years have been way to busy in terms of work and other stuff to really get me started in Finnish, but now I'm on parental leave with a little bit more time to work on the language. I have some of the basics already so I'm not really a total beginner.
Current study methods:- I'm attending an evening course for beginners. This amounts to 2 hours per week with some homework which so far hasn't been very demanding.
- I have started the FSI Conversational Finnish-course. Right now moving into unit 3, but I find it quite difficult and I think I will need to go back to previous units for revision several times. Biggest problem is finding the time and concentration to do this.
- I try to add all unknown words into Anki. Current wordcount: 249.
I don't think I will start a log on this forum, but I will check in now and then and try to help with questions about Swedish (and the little Finnish I know which is mostly cultural stuff).
Edit: Decided to start a log after all, here it is:
https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... 15&t=10256