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World Service,26 Nov 2016,9 mins

Is the BBC World Service Speaking Your Language?

Over to You

Available for over a year

By the end of next year the BBC World Service will be providing services for 40 different languages across the world. That is as of last week when it announced it will be launching a further 11 in Afaan Oromo, Amharic, Gujarati, Igbo, Korean, Marathi, Pidgin, Punjabi, Telugu, Tigrinya, and Yoruba. Programme director of World 2020, Adrian Van-Klaveren, anwers listeners' questions on the move and not everyone is happy. We also hearing from listeners who have been in touch to let us know what they have been listening to this week.

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