This First Person article is the experience of Florence McCambridge, a writer who lives in Toronto. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ.
If I’d known how hard it would be to learn a language as an adult, I never would have convinced my dad to let me drop out of Greek school.
In fairness to my younger self, learning to speak my father’s birth language didn’t hold much importance to me back then. My parents didn’t speak each other’s first languages (French and Greek), which meant that we always spoke English at our home in Toronto’s
