DAR ES SALAAM, Dec. 5 -- PARENTS have been encouraged to persuade their children to learn foreign languages, as it will create a multilingual generation that will easily utilise various opportunities and expose them to the world without having a language barrier.
Talking to 'Daily News', University of Dar es Salaam Institute of Development Studies (IDS) senior lecturer, Prof Colman Msoka, said the world had become a village, so learning foreign languages would put the nation in a better competition position.
"There is a need to have professionals who are also multilingual. The authorities need strategic plans of grooming experts who can also communicate in other languages apart from English," he said yesterday at an event called 'Choose F...