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Fifteen languages, one classroom.
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Italian in the kitchen
The bread of my home
Amina kneads and tells her story: the same flour, two countries, forty years apart.
Episode 12, with Amina -
Journey stories
From Peshawar to Dalmine, by bus
It took Naveed fourteen months. He tells the borders in order, one by one.
Episode 11, with Naveed -
Behind the scenes
The first day of school, at 40
Three new students walk into a classroom for the first time. No interviews: just the camera at the back of the room.
Video -
Multicultural dictionary
“Saudade” can’t be translated
Joana tries to explain it in Italian for fifty-eight seconds. She doesn't manage, and that's perfectly fine.
Reel -
Story map
The city walls told in eight languages
An audio walk along the Venetian Walls: each bastion is narrated by a student in their mother tongue.
Bergamo · Upper Town -
Story map
The Tuesday market
Four minutes among the stalls: the names of vegetables, haggling, numbers said out loud.
Treviglio