Miyako Matsui, a Japanese language teacher based on the NSW South Coast, spent her childhood moving between Japan and Australia and later worked as a junior high school English teacher in Japan. She says that experiencing both the frustration of not understanding English and the struggle of not being able to speak Japanese has ultimately become one of her greatest strengths. Today, alongside teaching Japanese, she serves as President of AFMLTA (The Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations), becoming the first Japanese person to lead Australia's peak body for language educators. - ニューサウスウェールズ州サウスコーストの日本語教師・松井美弥子さん。子どもの頃に日本とオーストラリアを行き来し、日本で中学校の英語教師としても働きました。小学生のときに英語が分からない辛さ、日本語が分からない苦労の両方を経験し、今ではそれが財産になっていると語ります。
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