Learning a language to speak adequately requires a minimum of around 870 hours. Some Australian states mandate around 1,000 hours through secondary school, but others require less than half that time.
Uganda’s English language policy isn’t applicable to schools in the the country’s rural areas.
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Uganda’s English language policy is at odds with the situation on the ground in the country’s rural schools.
Luiz Capitulino,11, and his mom Sheyla Do Vale of Brazil embrace after becoming official Canadians during a citizenship ceremony at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa on Monday, Sept. 25, 2017.
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It is important that all South Africans learn to speak an African language. But is making a single language a compulsory university subject the best way to make this happen?
Harder when you first begin juggling two languages.
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