BBC 6': Losing Your Mother Tongue

What is the main topic discussed in the BBC Learning English program titled 'Losing your mother tongue'?

• Learning a new language

• Losing one's native language

• Traveling to new countries

• Teaching English

Julie Sedivy's family left their home during the Cold War. Fill in the blank: They traveled through Europe and arrived in ______ as political refugees.

• Canada

• Australia

• United States

• United Kingdom

According to the United Nations, how many people around the world are currently living as displaced refugees?

• 3 million

• 53 million

• 103 million

What language started to replace Julie Sedivy's native language, Czech, when she moved to a new country?

• French

• Spanish

• English

• German

Fill in the blank: The loss of a first, native language is also known as losing one's ______.

• second language

• mother tongue

• foreign language

• dialect

By the time Julie arrived in Canada, she had been exposed to several other languages including ______.

• Spanish and German

• Italian and French

• Russian and Polish

• Japanese and Korean

Julie believes that by speaking multiple languages, we gain a sense of ______.

• superiority

• tolerance

• confusion

• isolation

Julie compared being dunked into unfamiliar situations to a ______.

• fish in water

• biscuit in tea

• bird in the sky

• leaf in the wind

What did Julie never give up hope of finding?

• A new home

• A new language

• A new school

• A new friend

Julie spoke with BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth about the idea that speaking multiple languages helps us not forget ______.

• our past

• who we are

• our friends

• our dreams