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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.

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.

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.

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.

Recently retired, Suzanne can now enjoy dedicating time to her numerous passions. Her main current goals are to share her love for languages and help organizing the World Esperanto Congress to be held in Montreal in 2020.

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!