[lelanthran]

> Any other person who lived in a country for a decade and can't converse in the language would be (rightfully imo) shamed for it.

How many languages do you know?

I live in a country with 11 official languages; please come stay for half a decade.

[triyambakam]

And no one is expecting you to know all 11. But I'm sure on average most people know more than ONE. which country anyways, India?

[lelanthran]

> And no one is expecting you to know all 11.

TBH, there's only one you need to know in order to feel like a native - english.

> But I'm sure on average most people know more than ONE.

Guilty, unfortunately. The non-english one I know is pointless, useless and has too much emotional baggage attached to it to make me happy about speaking it.

> which country anyways, India?

South Africa.

[noisy_boy]

India has double of that - 22 scheduled languages[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_with_official_status...