main benefit is cost of living being lower, but if that's the drive, SEA is better
general
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
gotta listen to that Eurobeat Dialga
Euro club scene is frankly just weird
I could see if I retire early (35-40), deciding it might be fun to live overseas somewhere for a while
learning Chinese also
a woman who works for me, her entire family just lives all over the world, so she spends like half the year traveling to see people in Portugal, Italy, France, Thailand, Argentina, etc.
and that seems pretty comfy she spends ~6 months of the year traveling, 6 months in the states
I would need to be HIGHLY motivated to learn a language, and I don't think I ever will be tbh
I'm not good at it inately, and it's a tremendous amount of work to get good, that relies on you to care a lot as well
Replying to heir #hyrrulfr 🥱 just come to europe
If I was going anywhere, netherlands is a high contender for international vacation
the whol idea though, of working a meme remote job, and just fucking off to the 3rd world
is kinda neat
Replying to Wuvwand #loveland Bc me and my girlfriend are taking a much shorter, much more condensed Canada trip in August lol
Quebec is so close to Kingston you should try to talk your gf into how you have to meet your internet cult leader irl
I think learning Spanish past like, an elementary level is kinda weird
unless you want to go into business in Mexico/S.America
I'm just glad English became the worlds default 2nd language, you can reliably find someone able to understand you nearly anywhere
yeah
at least for travel, a light brush with the local language + Google Translate can get you by
(Indians speak a lot of English FYI)
because of the British
Hindi, Bengali, and Urdu are the big 3 local languages
Just go to places that have ENG as a 2nd+ language
but like, English it HEAVILY used
that's probably acurate
I think it's Chinese -> Spanish -> English for 1st language
and then it's English for total
depends also if you count all the dialects, like India, Africa, Philipines, etc.
which are english+local
Even Russia, one of the last places you'd expect it, ~1/5 people speak English at a passible level
and that's one of the lowest globally
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 I'm just glad English became the worlds default 2nd language, you can reliably find someone able to understand you nearly anywhere
yeah but this sucks because this a big reason why our language learning curriculum is so awful in the states. that and education as a whole is awful here
I think the education system is very good overall, and am glad we don't dedicate significant time to learning foreign languages
it's inconsistant across the country, and I think it is underrated how important that is, but most curriculums biggest shortcomings is the innability to weed people out
I think language is the least concerning part of your (and our) education system
the slipping math conpetency is more concerning for me
so districts with extremely low-participation get fucked over because a huge portion of their student body drag their peers down
and while some states fix this with charter, feeder, or technical schools, states that don't care don't bother
you can't fail school at any point K-12
what do you do in a system where the kid isn't showing up or meaningfully participating, and their parents don't care
previously, you fail/expell them, now because you can't though