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Title: Communication Challenges - Interview with Cathy Yao:
Contributor(s): Yao, Cathy (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-16
Language: English
Description: Cathy talks about the language challenges she has encountered in Vancouver.
Extent: 00:02:40
Subject(s): Immigrants - Experience, English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers
Location(s): Victoria-Fraserview
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Langauge and Community - Interview with Auristela Palacios
Contributor(s): Palacios, Auristela (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-03-17
Language: English
Description: Auristela describes how she is learning the language and finding community in her new neighbourhood.
Extent: 0:01:06
Subject(s): Venezuelan Canadians, Immigrants - Experience, English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers
Location(s): Victoria-Fraserview
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Language and Immersion - Interview with Sue Lum:
Contributor(s): Lum, Sue (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: moving image
Date Created: 2015
Language: English
Description: Sue Lum talks about the importance of learning English in making cultural connections.
Extent: 00:01:04
Subject(s): Chinese Canadians, English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Chinatown Stories, Story City

Title: Language Challenges and Friendly People - Interview with Camila de Melo Guedes
Contributor(s): de Melo Guedes, Camila (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-03-17
Language: English
Description: Camila explains her language challenges and the friendly people she finds in her new home.
Extent: 0:01:54
Subject(s): Immigrants - Experience, Brazilian Canadians, English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers
Location(s): Victoria-Fraserview
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Language Difficulties - Interview with Shake Kiledjian
Contributor(s): Kiledjian, Shake (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-03-17
Language: English
Description: Shake explains that her language difficulties are preventing her from finding work.
Extent: 0:00:37
Subject(s): Immigrants - Experience, Employment, English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers
Location(s): Victoria-Fraserview
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Language Learning and Community - Interview with Zhao Lan Fang
Contributor(s): Fang, Zhao Lan (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-07-24
Language: English
Description: Zhao Lan Fang came to join her son when he came to study at Langara college. She has been enjoying the many offerings of the city, and has found the English language learning programs a great source of new friends. Recorded at The Drum Is Calling Festival.
Extent: 00:02:25
Subject(s): English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers, Community centres, Marpole Oakridge Community Centre
Location(s): Marpole
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: School Experiences - Interview with Olivia Cheung
Contributor(s): Cheung, Olivia (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: moving image
Date Created: 2015
Language: English
Description: Cheung's school experience - taking the bus and raising her hand to answer questions in class.
Extent: 00:01:38
Subject(s): Elementary schools, English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers, Childhood, School children, Schools, Chinese Canadians, David Oppenheimer Elementary School
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1960s
Collection: Chinatown Stories, Story City

Title: Teaching English - Interview with Anna Terrana:
Contributor(s): Terrana, Anna (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-03-09
Language: English
Description: Teaching English to Italian newcomers at St Francis of Assisi.
Extent: 0:05:10
Subject(s): Italian Canadians, St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church (Vancouver, B.C.), Immigrants - Experience, Immigrants - Employment, Teachers, Schools, English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1960s, 1970s
Collection: Story City