• Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
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    How well do you speak those languages? For example, can you order pizza with pineapple and olives any of those languages? What if the pizza you get is cold, the there’s only one olive on it and the crust is soggy, could you get your complaints through in any language?

    Or perhaps will the explanation be more like: “Pizza bad, no good. Want money back.”

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      1 year ago

      I’m not from India but as another Asian, yes, we can have fluent conversations in several languages. (I grew up speaking English, Mandarin, Malay, Cantonese and a bit of Hakka)

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      Well most of us speak a mother tongue , and english ( since ex britt colony ) very fluently , but there are times when both parents speak a different language and the city /state you live in has a different language and hence they speak it very close to native fluency !

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        My bf and his family for instance speaks 6 languages for the reasons listed above !