Soku

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[–] Soku@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

My friend is French, his wife Portuguese, they live in England with their two children. When all together, they all speak English with each other. When the kids are with one parent, the speak that language. In the park with father, French. Baking with mother, Portuguese. Bedtime stories are in the language of the parent reading. Kids switch between languages easily and understand what to speak with whom. Effortless trilingual.

Another friend moved country with her husband and had three kids. Home language was always mother tongue, both my friends had fairly bad English. Everything outside parents is in English for the kids - media, school, anyone outside the household. Again, the switch for the kids is really easy, they are fluent and have no accent in both languages.

[–] Soku@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

The temperatures are intuitive for me because Celsius is all I've known. The car going 60km/h or 100km/ h I know the difference and how it feels sitting in the car. The speed of wind in the forecast needs to be m/s to make any sense. Over 20 m/s I better tape the windows so that the storm won't break them

[–] Soku@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You can make tea out of nearly any plant. They are infusions rather than true tea but raspberry leaf or sprig tea is damn tasty

[–] Soku@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Those cats on the street are not meowing, they are yowling. That's a holler to intimidate or to fight, over a territory or hot ladies. That's not a meow for a human to fill the food bowl or give scritches or something else tame and domestic.

[–] Soku@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Nacho awakens cute aggression in me. I want to smoosh those cheeks with my thumbs while babbling nonsense like: who's the pretty boy, cutie pie, mwah-mwah-mwah!

[–] Soku@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

I for one am very happy to have a daily Kitty in my feed. Please don't stop

[–] Soku@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The red stripes and that hat are characteristic to Wally/Waldo, name depending on the continent.

[–] Soku@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

On the first photo Silas is probably standing in front of a blooming bush but I want to think he's wearing a birthday wreath

[–] Soku@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I googled Yanni and that's what I got

[–] Soku@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

I'm a trained chef working the trade for 30 years. 2 years in vocational school, a year for cooking and a year for bakery/patisserie. I'm a really confident cook - the concept of different cuisines, the basic ingredients and seasonings, no probs. Baking is still a rocket science for me. My current head chef said baking is fun if you know what you are doing but I'm still after 30 years not fully confident about the consistency.

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