Bilingualism: when maintaning the second language is hard

Luca Scuri

Luca and his family Source: courtesy of Luca Scuri

Our segment "Bilingui in erba" today meets a family from the Central Coast in NSW.


Luca is Italian and his wife Australian, but she speaks Italian fluently. However, keeping up their children's Italian has proven somewhat more challenging than they expected.

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