I'm Sam.
And I'm Rob.
In this programme,
we'll be hearing about an issue experienced
by many child refugees who are forced to leave their home –
the loss of their first, native language, or mother tongue,
as they start a new life,
learning to speak a new language, in a new country.
Julie Sedivy and her family left their home
in what was then Czechoslovakia
and is now the Czech Republic during the Cold War,
when Julie was a small child.
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,
and, as usual, we'll be learning some new vocabulary as well.
But first, I have a question, Rob.
Julie's family left their home as political refugees,
but every year millions of people are also displaced