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Re:Japan Has Changed a Lot by triyambakam on Thursday January 26, 2023 @05:15AM (#34529889)
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?
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Re:Japan Has Changed a Lot by lelanthran on Thursday January 26, 2023 @05:21AM (#34529935)
> 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.

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Re:Japan Has Changed a Lot by noisy_boy on Thursday January 26, 2023 @09:01AM (#34531670)
India has double of that - 22 scheduled languages[0]

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

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