Open Draft - with Fabio Cerpelloni Discover Who You Are: With Author and Polyglot, Urmi Hossain
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Dec 15, 2022 AI Snips
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Growing Up Between Italian And Bengali Worlds
- Urmi describes growing up Italian while raised by conservative Bengali parents who expected a traditional daughter.
- She felt neither fully Italian nor fully Bengali and eventually decided to embrace both cultures, calling herself 50-50.
Use Others' Example To Kickstart Your Story
- Urmi wrote her book partly to bring awareness and because writing was therapeutic for her.
- She was inspired after contacting another woman who had self-published and used that example to motivate her own project.
From Italian Classrooms To Surviving A Year In England
- Urmi learned English starting at age seven in Italy, then struggled during a year living in England where she heard thick accents and defaulted to Italian when speaking.
- Intensive language classes and a demanding teacher later pushed her to fluency through extensive homework, essays, and listening practice.