I am planning to start a polyglot club. I am on the Facebook Polyglot page. Singapore has four official languages and you see signs in four languages and hear repeated messages in four languages on the underground train stations (MRT - mass rapid transport).
Chinese is difficult. For an English speaker the easy languages are Spanish and Swedish. I started learning German on Duolingo and finished the basic course. I started the Spanish. I am now bowling through the Swedish on Duolingo. There are 50 units, each of which has about six to nine projects lasting about 5 to 10 minutes. When I am bored, on the train, waiting for a meal, in bed but too stressed to sleep, instead of reading bad news, I do another lesson.
Duolingo is positive. It keeps telling you how wonderful you are for completing each lesson and project, with little animations. It also keeps track of how many words you learned and how many hours you have spent and how this compares with last month.
Easy Swedish
English - Swedish
1 age - alder (the spelling looks like older but starts with an a like the English word age)
2 day - dag (starts with the same two letter, ends with a letter with a tail, sounds like the German)
3 du - you (similar to the French tu, or remember how do you do)
4 February - februari
5 June - juni
6 sugar - socker
7 We - vi
Useful Websites
DUOLINGO
WIKIPEDIA
wikipedia/swedish language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_language
https://myswedish.medium.com/orthography-in-swedish-8fb4ef13a26b
Months
https://www.speaklanguages.com/swedish/vocab/months-and-seasons
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