Kingdom of Knuffel

Haha, well, maybe it depends on the accents, but German usually sounds harsh (back when I was learning it, I'd always soften the "ch" because it just sounded better x.x), and Italians (as far as my experience goes) cannot speak quiet for their lives I mean seriously, you're in a forest, you don't have to yell over to the person strolling right next to you I suppose it's cultural for them
Too bad you couldn't make it, but hopefully you'll get on the course *fingers crossed* I remember the pain of not being able to enroll to some class, but on our uni it's just "no space - gtfo" I mean they make a few exceptions sometimes, but it's too much effort and going places and talking to people and mem gots scared as a bunny x.x Luckily that's behind me now

Hm, I think the not speaking quiet is not so bad to me because I tend to speak loudly myself as well. Or at least my bf always complains that I do, I don't notice it :D
Hm, luckily for us it's all online, you don't really have to go anywhere and talk to people. But yeah, I mean, I understand they can only fit so many people into one room, but if all the classes are full after half a day, maybe it would be a good idea to just offer more?

I am also struggling with completing a few things mem. I recently started on doing two things on your list though, exercising regularly and revising my Swedish. Works pretty well so far ^.^ If I can do it, you can do it, too :P

I do not order food though. Very rarely and only when I am with other people. Ordered for myself only a month a go, as a gift for myself for finishing the thesis. Felt weird xD And it's expensive.

Aw, what a bummer Chrizine, but I wish you luck! I wanted to take another Swedish class past semester, but unfortunately it was too full and I did not make it. I will try again this time. The deadline has not begun yet though. We have free language courses at our uni as well..

Russian, German, Polish sounds harsh, I agree on that (Russian is my mother tongue and I am living in Germany since 2000).

@Chrizine: Offer more? Sweet Lord in Heavens, no! That will get expensive! #sarcasmplz
And seriously, some courses are full within seconds, I mean it XD

@jacob: Well, in my uni the language courses are obligatory. You get to pick the language, but you have to pick something

@Julez: Hopefully I can x.x I'll be trying to motivate myself in the nearest future.

Yeah, bf just briefly calculated outloud how much we spend on food (because I mentioned we should start cooking and not ordering) and yeah, it's a lot of money x.x

Good luck with the Swedish class then

Haha, yes, it depends on the country and education system and everything, so not everybody speaks English. (tho just yesterday I wondered what it's like to have most of the world just speak/write your native language and so you can easily understand about anything you see/hear without having to learn anything... sounds convenient. Unless it's broken English like "me be Kali, me cow like" )

We've been ordering every day lately

Thanks mem! I really hope I can get into the course. But I am quite confident that it will work out as it's obligatory for me in my Master's degree to take a course in a non-standard European language :D

It's good that you calculated how much you spend on food, having the numbers in front of your eyes :P

Oftentimes native English speakers tend to think that it is unnecessary to learn other languages because everyone speaks English. I am glad you do not think that way :)

@jacob: Wow, that's indeed scary x.x

@Julez: Then hopefully it will work out as you say

Lol, yea, it was like:
me: hon, we need to stop ordering food.
bf: yea, I know. Let's say one dish costs 20, times 2, that's 40 a day, and times 6, cause maybe one day a week we cook something. So that's somehing about 250 a week, it makes 1k per month...
me: we have to stop this madness x.x

Lol, I've heard majority of USA thinks they don't have to learn other languages xD