This is episode 12 of Accentricity, a podcast about sociolinguistics. In this podcast I try to narrow the gap between academic and non-academic understandings of language, by speaking to a range of people from inside and outside of academia.
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?