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What's a skill that's taken for granted where you live, but is often missing in people moving there from abroad? (kyu.de)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I was thinking about that when I was dropping my 6 year old off at some hobbies earlier - it's pretty much expected to have learned how to ride a bicycle before starting school, and it massively expands the area you can go to by yourself. When she went to school by bicycle she can easily make a detour via a shop to spend some pocket money before coming home, while by foot that'd be rather time consuming.

Quite a lot of friends from outside of Europe either can't ride a bicycle, or were learning it as adult after moving here, though.

edit: the high number of replies mentioning "swimming" made me realize that I had that filed as a basic skill pretty much everybody has - probably due to swimming lessons being a mandatory part of school education here.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Presumably what they meant, yes. Sometimes YouTube translates video titles for example. Of course, the video is still in the original language, so it's completely useless, except for videos without speech.

Every program should have a setting to define in which language you want to interact with it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

YouTube supports multiple audio tracks these days and sometimes it decides that I should listen to a dubbed version of a video. Somehow all media players are very limited when it comes to settings for language preferences.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Which is ridiculous and funny, because our (at least 15 year old) DVD system can swap between audio tracks flawlessly!