Soap operas in South Africa is helping to break down language barriers according to a story in The Christian Science Monitor, citing subtitles and multicultural language use that's aiding cross-cultural understanding.
The short article quotes Sarah Slabbert, a Johannesburg language consultant who says switching lauguages is how urban dwellers learn to ''meet each other halfway''. ''We can identify better with [multilingual] characters than if they were speaking only one language. We can work together; we can live together.''
