Then again, if English brings wealth why is Africa still downtrodden despite many Africans speaking English more fluently than the Japanese?

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The benefits of learning to speak more than one languages fluently are not necessarily limited to the formative years.

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Its intergenerational transmission has been disrupted, as it is spoken fluently today only by people who are more than 70 years old.

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