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by moltar
1236 days ago
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What if a country has two official languages (Canada) or three (Switzerland) or eleven (South Africa)? Do you need to learn them all, as a foreigner? What about as a naturalized citizen? What about as a born citizen? What if a country has adopted English as another official language (Hong Kong, Malaysia). Do you still need to learn the other languages? |
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In any case, particularly in Canada and Switzerland the official languages tend to be far more geographically divided than the unofficial languages in those countries, or the many languages in South Africa or much of India, or even Chinese in Singapore, Spanish in the US, etc. It's usually clear which subset of languages, official or otherwise, are useful for the city/region in which you live.