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Moreno Giovannoni in our SBS studios

Moreno Giovannoni in our studios Source: SBS Italian

Moreno Giovannoni was born in Italy but moved to Australia aged 3. He did not lose his Italian and became a translator.


How does the Italian language survive in a bilingual person who has spent most of his life in Australia? For Moreno Giovannoni it's a question of passion. Born in a small Tuscan village, Moreno migrated with his parents as a young child, but still speaks Italian like a mother tongue.


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