<p>Athanassia became interested in languages at 13 years of age when she moved to Australia from Greece. She quickly learned English and became one of the top students in the school as well as Headgirl. Learning English inspired her to continue learning new languages and as a result she pursued studies in French at the University of Western Australia. Her language journey inspired her to follow in the path of becoming a language teacher for Greek and French. She has taught Greek in Community Schools since 2008 and also spent 2 years working as a Greek language teacher in a private independent K-12 school. Always on the lookout for new challenges, she pursued further studies to be able to teach English as a Foreign Language. Combining her love for languages, teaching and travel, she moved to France for 7 months to teach English in a public highschool. She is now back in Perth teaching English to adults and completing a Master of Education in Leadership. She is in the early stages of learning Portuguese and hopes to learn Italian and Spanish next!</p>
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Helen Kapalos
I began my career as a reporter on ABC Radio in Newcastle in 1994 before moving to SBS after winning a national scholarship. In 2001, I was approached to join the Nine Network as a reporter on National Nine News where I covered breaking news events such as the Waterfall train disaster and the historic Sydney Gang rape trial. I played a key role in the 2004 Athens Olympics coverage, where I reported for several news and current affairs programs from the Greek capital and across Europe. Upon my return I was appointed host of the Late News program Nightline. In addition to that role, I presented a weekly news segment on the Network's flagship current affairs program Sunday, alongside host Jana Wendt.
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Fablice Manirakiza
Maintaining language culture is very important not just to me but to all the diversity communities as well as the wider community of Australia, English is my second language, I understand the importance of it, not just in our everyday life but also in connecting with the world politicly, economically and other aspects, but to most of us this wouldn't slow us in maintaining our main language, the world of today is about creating and sharing we should all be proud of who we are and share our cultural across the world, but it all start with your own identity of where you come from, I believe maintaining language is important to achieve all the desire of making this world a better place.
Robert DIPIERDOMENICO
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