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aaronupright t1_ixlbpom wrote

Reply to comment by herewego199209 in Might be a stupid question, but I've been watching a lot of stuff regarding the Spartan and Persians recently and I always wondered how would these people have communicated back then? Were there specific scholars in both countries that were trained in various languages? by herewego199209

My office manager in Pakistan has a 10th grade education. His earlier profession was as a guy incharge of deliveries for logistics company so he travelled a lot. He speaks 6 languages.

Only in the US,UK, Australia etc is multilingualism a sign of education. In most places it's standard.

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Zephrok t1_ixluhpo wrote

Yep, because english is all you need in the west. Learning anither language is extra work.

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aaronupright t1_ixlwy68 wrote

Don't know about "anither" language, but another language isn't particularly hard.

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