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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? (self.asklemmy)

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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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[-] dingus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I briefly lived in a place with some very unintuitive place names that I had no idea how to say.

Problem is that unless it's a very large area, there's often not an easy way to look up how local place names are pronounced.

I remember for some of the places, I had taken to searching on YouTube hoping to find local news reports where they said the name out loud lol.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Imagining you looking up this video

[-] dingus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Lmao. It's not quite that long, but there is a river nearish to me with a bizarrely long name. I tried looking it up one night and could only ever find people abbreviating it! So I'll never know how the full name is pronounced lol. Maybe no one else knows either.

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