Episode 18: Negotiating heritage language after civil war: A search for belonging in a language that is no more

31/05/2024 32 min Temporada 1 Episodio 18
Episode 18: Negotiating heritage language after civil war: A search for belonging in a language that is no more

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Join us for a chat with our first European guest, Ivan Rašić, whose family fled from Yugoslavia to Austria in the 1990s during civil war. In today's episode, Ivan walks through some historical background of Yugoslavia's language context, as well as his personal experience growing up in Austria as a heritage speaker of Serbo-Croatian, a language that has since become separate languages. Ivan shares the complications of speaking a heritage language that doesn't exist anymore, his family's difficult start in Austria as refugee's, and his experience with community and language in Austria. Follow us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heritagebydesign

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