Word of Mouth: Remembering Mother Tongue

Michael Rosen asks Canadian writer and language scientist Julie Sedivy what happens when people lose their first language. Julie's family left their home country, the former Czechoslovakia, when she was a small child. They arrived in Canada as refugees with no English. Michael and Julie discuss the role of language within Julie's family story - how young children assimilate, how parents adapt and what can learned from these family experiences for the whole of society