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To: txnativegop

I’ve never met an African who spoke all of those languages.

But in my experience, most Africans who come from a country once colonized by Europeans will speak the Euro language, often French, as well as their own African and perhaps another African language. In addition, if they speak English, it is not only good, but often very elegant, since many of them learned English from Britons and were exposed to good literature.

I’ve met young Ethiopians coming to the US for the first time as University students, who speak as if they were born and grew up here. A lot of it is due to the world wide ubiquity of English-language mass media. Despite the ‘America-haters’ so prominent in the news these days, there are still many people in the world - especially young people - who WANT to be Americans.


59 posted on 07/18/2019 3:22:07 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Jamestown1630

The least linguistically talented African I’ve worked with was a Kenyan who spoke his own tribal tongue, English, Italian, and French, all fluently.


65 posted on 07/18/2019 4:16:03 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: Jamestown1630

and I have with People from Niger, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Kenya, and Ethiopia.


67 posted on 07/18/2019 4:17:07 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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