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@purnhart I live in Finland, which is a bilingual country, Finnish and Swedish. My native/first language is Finnish, my SO’s Swedish. I speak Finnish to kiddo, SO speaks Swedish. When with my family, we speak Finnish mostly but when SO addresses kiddo, he switches to Swedish. And vice versa...

@matthew0101 Ok I have only a teeny tiny grasp of few courses of Spanish way back then in the Jurassic age that was my school days, but I dug up some comparative videos on YouTube and it seems to me that yes, your wife has a point in that Castilian and Galego sound very similar. When they point...

@jackwallar1000 I agree with the sentiment of Swedish/Norwegian: they really are so similar, that if you are fluent in one you are usually able to understand the other. Ofc there are false friends (e.g. spis in Swedish is stove, but in Norwegian to eat IIRC), but I’m a Finnish person fluent in...

@matthew0101 Just an anecdote/observation: I am in Finland where both Finnish and Swedish are official languages. How much Swedish is spoken around you is strongly dependent on where you are located, in my area there’s quite a lot, but still, Finnish is a majority. My kiddo (Finnish/Swedish) has...