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When I was at school, we were taught in our mother tongue language (English for me) up until Grade III and then we were taught the second official language, Afrikaans. Now, we are a rainbow nation and have 11 official languages. Schooling still begins with the mother tongue language, and then extended so that 3 of the official languages will be covered. English and Afrikaans are still the primary languages and in the Western Cape, Xhosa is the 3rd mother tongue language that is taught. For a lot of my school friends, Afrikaans was not their second language. I grew up in Little Italy, and most of my friends spoke Italian. My grandparents spoke German and I learned to speak Hebrew before I learnt to speak Afrikaans. So by now, you are all…
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