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Until recently, South Africans have been memorably bad at French: our European language of choice at most schools was German (with Namibia, formerly German South-West Africa, next door, that made sense). So you get really weird things like girls named Rene (no accent, no second e) and boys named Charl (to look different from the English Charles!). And there's a suburb called Fontainebleau.

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But now we're getting lots of immigrants, guest workers, diplomats and refugees from Francophone Africa, so more schools are offering French as well as German and its popularity is growing. In twenty years it'll be interesting to see what's developed.

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Love your local saying!