When we first came to Australia, I went to a school where they thought I would be ok without doing any special English lessons. At first I thought, ‘Yeah it’s going to be fine’ but then I realised that I just didn’t understand a thing anyone was saying. I came home crying and I was like, ‘Why do they not understand me?’ and my parents said, ‘You’re not speaking English to them, you’re speaking Slovenian!’ It took me about three months to kind of understand what they were saying.
At the beginning, it . . .