Learning a new foreign language can be very beneficial and you can try starting with the following easiest African languages to learn. This is useful if you plan to travel to Africa or you are just ...

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When South Africa became a democracy in 1994, five of the country's universities used Afrikaans as a medium of instruction. There were also two bilingual universities teaching in Afrikaans and English ...

Afrikaans celebrates 100 years today since becoming an official language on 8 May 1925, joining English and replacing Dutch as a national language. Afrikaans was born in the Cape. In the late 1500s, ...

While kids can pick up new languages at a rapid clip, we adults often struggle to remember the word for fork three months into French class. Historically, this age-related mismatch in language ...