28 Feb 2020

Conversations with My Immigrant Parents: We Can't Speak the Same Language

From Here Now, 6:00 pm on 28 February 2020

Produced for RNZ by Saraid de Silva and Julie Zhu | Made possible by the RNZ/NZ On Air Innovation Fund

(L-R) Karenza de Silva and her daughter Saraid in Birkenhead, Auckland.

(L-R) Karenza de Silva and her daughter Saraid in Birkenhead, Auckland. Photo: Saraid de Silva / Julie Zhu

In this episode Voices, hosts Saraid de Silva and Julie Zhu  of the podcast series Conversations With My Immigrant Parents, turn the mics on themselves and talk with their own immigrant mums.

Co-hosts and producers Saraid de Silva and Julie Zhu travelled Aotearoa met families from 11 different countries in this series.

Note: The second half of this episode has an English dub of Jenny’s dialogue, translated by Julie Zhu and read by Jing su-Cornall.

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(L-R) Jenny Chang with her daughter Julie Zhu in Botany, Auckland.

(L-R) Jenny Chang with her daughter Julie Zhu in Botany, Auckland. Photo: Saraid de Silva / Julie Zhu

To hear the full length episode and other episodes, check out Conversations with My Immigrant Parents . This is a series where immigrant whānau have conversations they normally wouldn’t, crossing barriers of language, generation, and expectation.

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