These two words are often
used interchangeably, but they are not entirely the same. The adjective
"foreign" means "belonging or connected to a country that is not
your own." "International", on the other hand, means "involving
more than one country."
Per these definitions,
one can say that something can be foreign but not "international".
The Akan language is a "foreign" language to non-Ghanaians, but it
doesn't mean the language is an "international" one. The French language
is "foreign" to Ghanaians (because that is not their home language)
and at the same time it is "international" (because it is
generally/widely spoken or accepted around the world as language for trade,
business, education, etc. Consider more examples to validate this distinction.
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