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He also dropped English as the primary language for his literature and vowed to only write in his mother tongue, Kikuyu.

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"Iranians were here. They all fled," one of them says, speaking in his mother tongue, a dialect of Turkish.

Learning French while also developing language skills in one's mother tongue is no easy task.