Meaning of IT'S LIKE RIDING A BIKE - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles
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So in English when we say, "It's like riding
a bike.", what we're talking about is a skill
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that you have learned to do in the past that
is still easy for you to do today.
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We're not actually talking about riding a
bike at all.
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A good example of this would be maybe when
you were a kid you learned how to play the
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guitar and you haven't played guitar for a
number of years and friend of yours asks if
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you want to play guitar in his band, and you
would say, "Sure.
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No problem!"
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And if he said would you still be able to
play guitar you could say, "Ah, it's like
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riding a bike!"
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So what it means when you say, "It's like
riding a bike!", is that it is a skill that
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you learned in the past that you have not
forgotten.
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When you say, "It's like riding a bike!",
you're talking about something that you learned
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when you were younger that's still easy for
you to do now.
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