Veronica's Story

“My first experience with a different language than my mother tongue wasn’t ideally pleasant...”

Veronica Juliana Schmalz moved from Argentina to Sicily when she was eight. She didn’t know anyone and didn’t speak the language. Now she is fluent in six languages. But what was that journey like?

You can find the transcript for this episode here.

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Over the past year, during the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ve been working with a group of people from all over the world, teaching them to podcast and helping them to tell personal stories about the experience of moving from one place to another. Everyone who took part was brand new to podcasting, and most of the episodes were made without any professional equipment, using mobile phones and free editing software. The results of this course are seven episodes: each one about a very different migration experience, and each person bringing their own style and personality. We hope you love them as much as we do.

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From Veronica:

Hello, everyone! I am Veronica, a mainly Italo-Argentinean curious soul, with some German and Russian origins, too. Since my multicultural growth around some parts of the world and my multilingual journey, I have been interested in discovering new cultures and languages, one of the main reasons why I decided to study them and make a career out of this passion. Particularly, I like to concentrate on cross-modal and cross-cultural interactions between young adults. My plan is to start a podcast about it soon, interviewing some peers and sharing our adventurous and interesting stories (Las Cross-Rues, updates via my Instagram profile). Apart from that, I also like writing multilingual poems, that you can read here.

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