Now for those of you that were interested and clicked the thread, I don't really mean for you to answer that question by just simply saying to study.

I'll give you a little background first; I have been teaching myself Swedish for the past 6 months, I've made lots of Swedish friends online and I have even visited the country once (and many more times to go) whilst staying at my girlfriend's home and socialising with her parents. Though I hadn't learned nearly enough so we mostly kept to English there.

I have and still do study the grammar very diligently, because I can't learn in the way they tell you to "go to the country, live there and surround yourself in the language and culture". Trust me if I could I would but not as a student; I hope to complete my bachelors in Computer Science in England then go do a Master's course in Gothenberg in Sweden afterwards.

I can say quite a bit, nothing too complex I guess; if any of you can speak any swedish feel free to post something here in Swedish I'll give you a go.

So this brings me to my question. Have you learned another language without starting from birth or having it picked it up easily due to family? If so, how? How did you do it and is there anything you can suggest to help a person with little downtime to be able to communicate in another language?

Tack så mycket. Om du kan hjälp mig vänligen gör