I like to learn about words from around the world and use them in my speech. I have a particular love for British words. I just love words like spiv, nod, wasteman, barmy, slapper, bruv, lezza, shafted, nonce, junkie, bint, smackhead, nutter, slag, breve, chav, squiffy, slaphead, looney/loon, bender, and dosh.
Our family is pretty multicultural. We’re German, my mother is Norwegian. My aunt went to live in France and later married a British man (whom we suspect to be an ex MI6 agent). Really interesting to hear her speak German, her language basically stopped evolving when she moved. It’s subtle but still noticeable. And we have a close family friend from Lithuania. And my babushka lived in Russia for a while.
At her last birthday party before her death her mind (and hearing aid) were a little bit overwhelmed by all the people. And it was basically a coin toss what language she would speak with you. Actually kind of awesome. And if she defaulted to English it was good for including the MI6 agent because he didn’t speak German yet.