Non-natives: what do you think about English language?

I started learning the language when I was about 6 years old. My father was a big computer fanatic, and so was I. I loved playing games both at the computer and by the TV. Since I wanted to understand what happened in the games I sat with a dictionary day by day translating the words on the screen so that I could understand what I had to do and what the story was and so on. When we got to start learning English at school for real (at the age of 8 I think, maybe later) my teachers called home and asked my parents if they had learned me English, but they were as dumbfounded as the teachers really, never thinking that I'd learn English by myself just from games and movies, they've never really been that good at English themselves. Well, I can't say I've had a hard time learning because I started so early, also been quite a fast learner so it stuck pretty easily. I have to thank the games and also movies (for the speech part of the deal) for giving me a full English grade in school every year

In comparison to Swedish, I'd have to say English isn't that very hard, well at least for those who aren't native speakers. The thing is that the grammar in Swedish is fucked up. Okay, so it does have it grammatical rules and so that it follows, but there are just as many exceptions that don't follow the rules at all. Foreigners tend to have a hard time learning the language properly, because of the often irregular grammar and hard to pronounce vowels. In any case, it's not the hardest language I presume, I think what the hardest language to learn really depends on what area you come from, i.e. a Korean will have a much easier time than a Swede to learn other Asian languages and the Swede will have a much easier time learning European languages than the Korean. But because Swedish has so many vowels, we tend to be pretty good with most languages though, at least in the speech department.

As a matter of fact, I kind of like English more than Swedish, because it's a universal language spoken by many, and because it has so many words and expressions that we don't have in Swedish. Also, it's just more fun to speak English, especially with a british accent added to spice it up. I love talking like a brit The only thing I don't like about English (it's just a petty thing) is the fact that you don't have a word for one of the most normal words we have here in Sweden, and that is "fika". The closest translation you can get from it is the british "tea-time", but it really doesn't have quite the same meaning to it, as tea isn't even necessary when you "fikar" (the verb form of the word), and "fika" doesn't happen at a specific time at day and it can be used in many settings. Ah well nevermind, I'm just gonna confuse you if I keep on talking about "fika"

Jam it back in, in the dark.