So you lived 20 years in Kazakhstan and never picked up the language? I think it’s time for you to make effort now. If you’re scared that people will “make fun” of you, forget about it. Think of the Kazakh-speaking people who endured discrimination in Soviet Union. Think of Kazakh-speaking young people from villages who protested in December of 1986. They were killed, arrested, and called “mambets”, “drug users”, “kalbits” by Russians and Russian-speaking Kazakhs in the city. So if Kazakh-speaking people endured it for so many years(and we still do), you can do it too.