This recording is of my Grandma meeting my boyfriend. My Grandma is an ethnic German who was born in Russia in 1932 who speaks Mennonite Low German, Russian and German. She is a bit deaf so we have to repeat some things and say them louder. She resettled to Germany in 1991.

My boyfriend is American and speaks English and broken German. He lives with me in Vienna, Austria. I was born in Siberia, Russia, in 1983 and grew up in Germany. You can also hear my mother in the recording and she also speaks Mennonite Low German, Russian and German.

Recorded by Xenia Penko.

Part of the Migration Sounds project, the world’s first collection of the sounds of human migration. 

For more information and to explore the project, see https://www.citiesandmemory.com/migration