As a kid, I learned English from English language cartoons on FilmNet. I learned from German TV shows. My passion for Swedish crime series taught me Swedish.
But now, the largest tv medium of our time, YouTube, has begun auto-translating everything. Future generations will not be exposed to foreign languages and be inspired to take an interest.
There was no public review of this, no democratic vote. One company just decided to turn foreign cultures off and make the world dumber.
For profit.
@randahl I get why you learnt Swedish. Not even Danish children understand danish.
/Skåning
@randahl trivia for the non-nordic readers:
Us nords are born into the intra-nordic bantering, but to others it sometimes might appear quite scary.
My US manager had invited a very important finnish customer of ours to dinner here in Sweden. As we had drinks waiting for the food to arrive I started up some Sweden-Finland jokes and he just looked at me as if I was absolutly out of my mind and thought they were about to just up and leave.
Fun times :D
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Scandinavian-countries-like-to-make-silly-jokes-about-each-other
Randahl Fink
Troed Sångberg