“I advocate that migrant families get lessons in their mother tongue.”

Professor Claudia Riehl studies German and Italian-speaking communities abroad and deals with the question of how migrants keep their native language alive. This year she came to Australia as part of her research work. In conversation with SBS German, she explained why she feels at home when she speaks Italian.

Prof. Claudia Riehl teaches about multilingualism at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. Credit: Claudia Riehl

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