FBI Radio's Bernadette Nguyen speaks to her Vietnamese-Australia mother, as well as young Korean migrant, and a Wiradjuri woman to find out how much of the world multilingual people can take on.

Supervising production from Celeste Macintosh. Training from the Community Media Training Organisation. Distributed by the Community Radio Network.

Produced for the 2020 CBAA National Features and Documentary Series.

They say that to speak a language is to take on a world, but for people from different cultural backgrounds living in Western spaces it’s easier said than done. Bernadette Nguyen speaks to her mother, a young Korean migrant, and a Wiradjuri woman, to find out how much of the world multilingual people can take on in My Mother Tongue.

Special Thanks

• Jayden Lee, Peta-Joy Williams and my mother Phuong Mai Nguyen for being so generous and sharing their stories.
• Jerome Blazé and Gemma Navarrete for kindly allowing me to use their music.
• Celeste Macintosh, Giordy, Heli and the team from the CBAA and CMTO for all the support during the entire program.