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Can learning languages make your child more intelligent

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Naima Karimi is proud that her daughter Tiffany Nkatha can speak four languages. English, Kiswahili, French and her mother tongue, Kimeru.

Tiffany, 16 years old and in Form Three, started learning French when she was 13 and seems to have an affinity for languages.

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