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I know I lived under a rock and all, but what is the movie's name?

I know someone named Pia. Never thought it was weird but we didn't interact in English

If you don't have any specific interest in a language you'll probably do fine in English.

Yeah I agree that it applies to all languages. I mean mostly that while it's easy to get away with just English in places like Sweden, it's not an equivalent experience. I really appreciate being able to communicate in Swedish here.

But yes, while my native language is Spanish, there are many things I can express better in English, and even Swedish. For example I learned a lot about myself emotionally and socially at the same time I was learning English as a teenager, and I struggle communicating these things in Spanish. I also only got proper therapy in Sweden and as a result, I express many aspects of my mental struggles best in Swedish.

I get it. I have only succeeded at learning languages I've been sort of forced to learn, even when I've also genuinely wanted to learn them.

I wanted to study an undergraduate degree that is only given in Swedish, so I went to school specifically to learn Swedish before that.

I work with programming so I'd get away only with English but somehow I've managed to reach a point where people mostly speak to me in Swedish, even though I don't look Scandinavian. I have a coworker that keeps talking to me in English and I reply to him in Swedish and sometimes it takes him a while to notice we're speaking different languages.

It does require a sustained effort and I slip when I'm lazy or tired. Also, having to use a language that doesn't let me project the best of me can be challenging as an adult.

Swedish is my third language. As I became more proficient in it, I quickly realized how many nuances and how much content you actually miss by only communicating in English while you live in Sweden.

How do you phrase your refusal? I am not looking for work right now, and my current job didn't give me live coding sessions. I'm against them in principle.

But I can't figure out how to phrase it in a way that doesn't sound like you're dodging. Do you refuse while you're already in the interview? Or do you make a preemptive disclaimer when they invite you for a "technical interview"?

I'm a Spanish speaker that is afraid of French. I cannot make any of those sounds.

Seems like only the US is available. I am also curious about a product like this that'd deliver to Sweden.

It worked on Eternity

We should at least have referred to the corona instead of the surface.

When it comes to the opposite, the coldest temperature in the known universe has actually been man-made (also in lab settings).

Same in Sweden unless it's a high-er end restaurant.