IN honour of International Mother Language Day today, February 21, we set up an experiment to test how mother tongue speakers differ in their speech to second language speakers.
We asked Caxton Local Media staff, Khethu Xulu and Mariclair Smit to put each other to the test and the results are hilarious.
Also read: Linguists share language insights for International Mother Language Day
Watch Mariclair attempt to pronounce umqombothi in isiZulu while Khethu tries to recite an Afrikaans nursey rhyme.
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