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EPISODE · Aug 4, 2022 · 38 MIN

Rough landing: Nine year old Julia arrived in Australia speaking no English

from My First Year in Australia

When Julia Mawande moved from Italy to Australia as a child she spoke absolutely no English. She was greeted by a very close-knit extended Australian Italian family, but couldn’t speak to anyone her own age. It made school incredibly challenging. Julia felt like a child of two worlds, belonging to neither.

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