• Tuukka R@piefed.ee
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    1 day ago

    So, do I have a right to reside in that country?

    I assume I’d need to get an alien passport first?
    What would be needed as soon as possible is a roof over my head, a source of income and starting to learn the local language.
    And then I’d have to figure how to get my children where I am.

    I would survive essentially the same way I am surviving now. There is no huge different between how life is in difference countries. I’ve started my life largely anew some five times now, in various countries. All in all, it’s the same experience anywhere.

    So, the answer to the question is: Relatively easily.

    • Relatively easily?

      Lolol

      Took me 4 years to fully master English as a very young child, you’d probably struggle with trying to learn a language as an adult lol.

      Edit: I mean I knew a few words within weeks, and the very very basics in 1 year, but takes 4 years to be like: “Oh I guess I’m a native now”, is what I’m saying

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        19 hours ago

        I can have a 2-hour-long conversation in Finnish, German, English, Ukrainian, Latvian, Estonian, Polish, Swedish, Spanish, Russian, Dutch and Lithuanian.

        I do not think you’re right in your claim that I’d struggle learning one more language as an adult.

        It’s also a myth that children learn languages faster. It takes them about 5 or 6 years to learn their native language at a level we adults would call “fluent”. An adult can do the same in some two years if they have an active approach to the learning.

        There is a technique about learning languages. Learn that and learning languages becomes quick.