The criteria of being bilingual (multilingual) in languages What is "bilingual(or multilingual)" in languages for you? I'm Japanese. Here in Japan most people speak only one language which is Japanese. But i know in a lot of countries people speak more than one languages. I mean in Japan I feel it's really difficult to be considered as bilingual because people's​ criteria or expectation is really high which i think the reason is Japanese is the only language they know and everyone speaks it perfectly. I speak okay English but I'm not sure if i can say I'm bilingual. How well do i have to be to say I'm bilingual? What's your opinion on being fluent or bilingual?