I actually found my Chinese has regressed after marrying a Taiwanese woman and living here for 5 yearsHer English was better than my Chinese when we first started dating (or more specifically, her vocabulary was), so English became the default language for our communication. Now it's way too easy to just have her deal with things
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So you don't speak any Chinese with the locals either?

I'm currently trying to self-teach Norwegian. It's quite an easy language for a native English speaker, and I also learn a lot of spoken Swedish and written Danish too, so it's an almost three-for-one language to learn (it's often touted as the best middle ground of the three Scandi languages).
Interesting.. I met an English fella in Norway who had lived there 20 years yet still had a Bolton accent!