Upside Down Under: Sprachbarrieren!

As we move into the new year, a subject came up frequently during holiday gatherings and that was that our parents didn’t teach us a second language when we were children.

Granted, some people who were parents in the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s only knew English, but there were countless others who did speak a second, or even a third language, and for the most part, kept it to themselves.

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