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Re:Apple, ARM, and Intel by eric_khun on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @11:10AM (#23540047)
By far the most english-speaking country in Asia (after singapore). You wouldn't have issue to communicate with people, have a normal daily life. Might have issue to communicate with the old generation, but most of the people will go out their way to help you. Mandarin is the official language, but they are now making a huge push to become a bilingual language[1]

For safety, from 0 to 10, I'd give it a 9.5. I like to joke about the daily biggest national news being a grandma who lost its cat, since not much "bad things" happens here. Most of the thing I lost were returned, for example I thought I've lost my bag with my ipad few years ago in a bar, but someone returned it the day after x)

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2020/06/13/2...

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Re:Apple, ARM, and Intel by DarmokJalad1701 on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @12:20PM (#23540957)
> By far the most english-speaking country in Asia (after singapore)

I would've thought that was India.

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Re:Apple, ARM, and Intel by komali2 on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @01:20PM (#23541613)
At least in the USA it's my experience that when people say "Asia" they mean maybe what some other people would describe as "East Asia." This has been true my whole life, despite there usually being someone there to say "but what about India?"
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Re:Apple, ARM, and Intel by simonebrunozzi on Thursday June 18, 2020 @12:45AM (#23559870)
Not by a long shot. You read that in India English is sort of an official language. But in truth, a big chunk of the population still doesn't speak it, and the ones that do often have a thick accent and not a very rich vocabulary. Source: been to India ~25 times.
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Re:Apple, ARM, and Intel by macleginn on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @11:16PM (#23547353)
In my exp, an average Indian person without a university education does not really speak or understand English.
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