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Losing your mother tongue

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Julie Tadevi and her family left their home in Czechoslovakia during the Cold War. After several years travelling through Europe, they arrived in Canada as political refugees with no English. We'll be hearing about Julie's childhood when learning English started to replace her native language Czech. Rob: According to the United Nations, how many people around the world are currently living as displaced refugees? I'll guess it's 103 million.

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