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BigBong is a social media entertainer specializing in audio-visual content. He is known for imitating various accents in different languages. As a comedian, his main approach in learning new languages is to study the cultural and non-verbal communication.

Zachary Burkett is a software engineer with a passion for languages. He finds it especially fascinating when his interest with math and computers overlaps with language. He has made an algorithm that writes piano music, an English to French translator, and works on the worldwide project Amikumu.

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Jessica Coon is Associate Professor of Linguistics at McGill University and holds the Canada Research Chair in Syntax and Indigenous Languages. Her research focuses on topics in syntactic theory, with a special focus on languages of the Mayan family. In addition to theoretical work, she leads collaborative language documentation and revitalization projects with indigenous communities in Canada and Latin America. In summer 2015 she worked as the scientific consultant for the film Arrival, which stars Amy Adams as a linguistic fieldworker who is recruited by the military to decipher the language of the recently-arrived Heptapods. Since the film, Dr. Coon has helped create a public dialogue about linguistics and endangered languages through interviews and written work in outlets including Wired Magazine, The Washington Post, and CBC’s The Current.

Hélène Cormier is a French and English teacher with over 20 years’ experience. She grew up in New-Brunswick and moved to Montreal when she was 20. She became a language teacher when she went to teach English in Korea in 1996, where she was bit simultaneously by the teaching bug and the travel bug. Her focus as a teacher has always been to help her students become fluent. She’s worked for several language schools, Alliance Française de Shanghai, Shanghai American School, Immigration Québec, and Université de Montréal. More recently, she taught corporate English for a videogame company in Seoul, South Korea. She’s also been teaching online for over four years and loves the freedom it gives her! These days, she creates travel videos to help people learn French in a fun, engaging manner. She speaks French, English, and Spanish, as well as a little Mandarin, Korean, and Bulgarian.

Professor Emiko Kunitate has over 2 decades of experience teaching Japanese language to foreigners at Fu Jen University and the Language Training and Testing Center in Taipei, Taiwan. She left her native Japan when she was 28 years old and has been living abroad ever since, first in Taiwan, then in Canada since 1996.

Benny Lewis runs the world’s most popular language learning blog (1 million monthly visitors), “Fluent in 3 Months”, and has published an international best-selling book of the same title, as well as multiple “Language Hacking” courses with Teach Yourself. He graduated university in Dublin with a degree in Electronic Engineering and immediately embarked on a 13-year long journey across the world. Even though he only spoke English at the start of his travels, he has made a business around his rapid language learning adventures, even earning the title of National Geographic’s Traveler of the Year. He has also spoken at TEDx events, and speaks regularly for companies and universities.

Moti Lieberman is the host and producer of the Ling Space, a YouTube channel launched in 2014 with the goal of producing fun, accessible videos about linguistics. Since then, the channel has produced more than 100 videos on topics from theoretical linguistics like phonology, syntax, and semantics, and from applied linguistics like language acquisition, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics, as well as interviews with prominent linguists. Prior to beginning work on the channel, Moti taught at Concordia University as a lecturer in Linguistics. He attended graduate school at McGill University in the Department of Linguistics, researching second language acquisition and comprehension, and presented his findings at numerous international conferences. Moti is an avid Japanophile, having lived in Japan for multiple years, and speaks Japanese at an advanced level.

Yuko Muto, M.D. Dr. Yuko Muto is a Japanese physician born, raised and trained in Nagasaki, Japan. Although she had learned some English during her university years, her real language journey began when she married polyglot and LangFest organizer Tetsu Yung, had 3 little polyglot children (Ronnie, Nika and Akila) and left everything behind in Japan to immigrate to the French-speaking province of Quebec, Canada.

Ronnie Yung Ronnie Yung was born on July 13, 2012 in Nagasaki, Japan, and is the oldest of the 3 children of Yuko Muto and Tetsu Yung. His language education has been based on the OPOL (One Person One Language) method, and today he speaks English, French, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.

Language learning enthusiast and world traveler. I currently speak English, French, and Spanish fluently. I also have an intermediate level in Gujarati & Mandarin. My future language goals are to add Hindi, Arabic, and Russian to the list of languages I speak. I document my journey on most major social media platforms as Azren the Language Nerd or @PolyglotAzren. For work, I primarily teach English, French, and Spanish both in-person and online.

Agathe Tupula Kabola is a speech therapist, columnist, author, and lecturer at the University of Montreal. She has appeared in television and radio shows with a large audience, like Salut Bonjour on TVA and Marina Orsini on Radio-Canada. She can also be heard on the show Les Éclaireurs on the Radio-Canada Première channel. She is the founder of a multitherapy clinic called Proaction, a private multidisciplinary clinic in Saint-Laurent that offers services in speech therapy, occupational therapy, psychoeducation, and psychology. Her career, her writing, her conferences, and her interventions in the media all stem from the same source of motivation: being near people in need and providing families with practical and innovative tools to help them rapidly access the services they need. Such are her passion and her vision of service that she wishes to share with the population.

Curious about everything and eclectic by nature, Nicolas has long been passionate about languages. Born in France, he has spent over half of his life in Quebec and now lives in Montreal. His strong interest in international and language-related issues drove him to learn Esperanto a few years ago. He is now president of the Quebec Esperanto Society and vice president of the local committee for the 2020 World Esperanto Congress in Montreal. He is fluent in French, English, Esperanto and Spanish, can get by in Portuguese and German and has notions of several other languages. His educational background is in physics and in environmental management, and he now works for a renewable energy firm. A member of the LangFest team, he occasionally shares his thoughts, language-related or not, on his blog at ideesmultiples.ca. Nicolas is furthermore also interested in history, geography, politics, economics and philosophy. He enjoys city walks and conversation, whatever the language!