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World Service,4 mins

The benefits of speaking your mother tongue

Focus on Africa

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Eugenia teaches English spelling at a school in Ghana. When she saw her first daughter "disconnected from family gatherings" because she couldn't speak her mother tongue, she decided to raise her second girl speaking exclusively her mother tongue, Fante. (Photo Credit: Eugenia Tachie-Menson)

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