How can you live in a country and not speak its language?

[Deeba1234]

Re: How can you live in a country and not speak its language?

@TT

This is directed mainly towards Pakistanis living in the Middle East. I have come across people on this forum who were born and brought up in an Arab country or have been living there for several years, yet they don’t speak Arabic. I find this very odd. How is this possible?

Do the ones who are born and brought up there not learn it in school?

I’ve seen supposedly ‘stupid’ people (footballers, models etc) who’ve moved to the UK not speaking English manage to pick up enough to do interviews, press conferences and so on within a year or two..