@mar yeah I agree. Learning a new language isn’t easy and I have no particular affinity for languages, but I put it a fair amount of effort to become fluent in Spanish and glad for it. In terms of German, I’ve only visited for at most a week at a time, not nearly enough to learn the language. My current situation living in Aotearoa New Zealand the de facto language is English but the official language is Te Reo Māori. In effect what happens is people speak a dialect of English with significant lexical substrate influence from Te Reo Māori. When I first arrived I had to google everything 10th word to understand any kind of official communication from the government or schools. While I support people learning the language where they live but most of the criticism of immigrants not leaning the language well enough feels xenophobic.