"I want to improve my Swedish."
Translation:Jag vill förbättra min svenska.
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You're thinking of the adjectives. I was using the nouns "Svenska/Tyska", which refer to the languages themselves, instead of things that are "Svenska/Tyska".
However, even as an adjective, you couldn't say "Min svensk".
Possessive pronouns always take the definite form of adjectives, so you would always say "Min svenska [noun]", "Ditt tyska [noun]", etc, and never "Min svensk", "Ditt svenskt".
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The irony of getting this specific translation wrong not only made me laugh but also hurt my heart. I feel like I have made no progress with this language and the worst is when I have questions the answer is 9 times out of 10, that it is just IDIOMATIC. That says learning the language requires less practice and rules and more just broad memorization and basically being born Swedish.
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I want to improve but duo is basically my only resource so I do not see improvement on the horizon.