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

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

My First Year on Aussie Soil
38 min
4 Aug 22
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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.