Young bilingual and multilingual kids about learning languages

Brunswick South Primary School kids

Brunswick South Primary School kids Source: Kylie Doust

This group of young students of the Brunswick South Primary School in Melbourne speak two or more languages.


Leo and Camilla were born in Italy in a monolingual family, but recently moved to Australia and had to learn English.

Nanai was born in Italy from an Italian mum and a Dutch dad but lived in Holland and Belgium and then moved to Australia, where he improved his English.

Fen was born in Australia from an Italo-Australian mum and a German dad, and speaks German, Italian and English.

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