Word: yigitoglu
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...Deniz Yigitoglu, Mark Twain's story 'The Awful German Language' would be of painful significance. Although the pretty 16-year-old daughter of Turkish migrants has spent most of her life in Germany - her parents moved to the industrial city of Duisburg when she was three - she speaks heavily accented German, which she admits is "quite faulty...
...Yigitoglu is one of many young migrants for whom the Teuton tongue is a truly foreign language. "Most third-generation Turks in Germany do not have a sufficient knowledge of German even though most of them have been born and raised here," says Ali Ucar, a professor of pedagogy at Berlin's Technical University. In a study of 273 preschool children from immigrant families in Berlin's Kreuzberg district, most of whom were of Turkish origin, Ucar found that 63% of the children spoke little or no German and thus "didn't meet the linguistic requirements for primary school." Similar...
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