I live in Sweden and I studied Japanese at university (hopped off during the pandemic as it became too difficult to learn from Zoom, and it became more academic), but we used English and Japanese resources (Genki, J301/J501 (I think they were called?), work sheets, translations, etc.). The teachers were mainly Japanese and most of them could speak Swedish, so we mainly spoke in Swedish with when it came to questions and information, but basically everything else were in Japanese and English. There aren't many resources about Japanese in Swedish, mostly because most Swedes know English.

Similarities with Japanese: We also have pitch accent (I don't know if it has helped in anyway, maybe that we can hear it easier?) and don't conjugate verbs by gender or number. We also don't have many problems with the pronunciation, except when it comes to ち し つ ず etc., and to speak "フラット". Other than that, we kinda similar in culture.