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Would you marry me if I don’t know how to speak my mother tongue?

Growing up I remember I never used to care to know my mother tongue. Nobody ever talked to me in my mother tongue, other than went I went to upcountry 'shaggz' as we digitals call it.

Speaking in mother tongue was unheard of and it never occurred to me that I should learn it because I never saw its importance.

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