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Something else we can learn from Europeans is to learn new languages. In western Europe, many people speak English, which was very handy. Many of them also pick up a third language, which is, well kinda embarrassing since I'm only fluent in English. I know a few words of Japanese such as "raaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrgggggggggg saqys the panda flavoured dino-monster", which is rough translation for Godzilla... and a few words of German, Italian, and French. Still I feel this isn't really enough. I guess the reason it is common for Kiwis to only know one language is because NZ is so isolated and until recent times we only just started travelling abroad and therefore had no reason to learn new languages. Additionally our schools don't really encourage their students to learn other languages. It's not until you reach year 10, that you are able to pick other languages aside from Maori, which isn't spoken in many places.... By the way, that translation was made up, if you couldn't tell :P