{"id":1374,"date":"2022-02-22T22:24:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T22:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2023-10-30T12:51:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T12:51:35","slug":"meet-a-language-superhero-ashley-counahan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/meet-a-language-superhero-ashley-counahan\/","title":{"rendered":"<small>Meet a Language Superhero: Ashley Counahan<\/small>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1375 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/7_LTI_Super_Power_Mag_Ashley_Counahan_Final-Front-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"language superhero Ashley Counahan\" width=\"247\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/7_LTI_Super_Power_Mag_Ashley_Counahan_Final-Front-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/7_LTI_Super_Power_Mag_Ashley_Counahan_Final-Front-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/7_LTI_Super_Power_Mag_Ashley_Counahan_Final-Front-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/7_LTI_Super_Power_Mag_Ashley_Counahan_Final-Front.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/>A graduate of the University of Tampa with dual BA degrees in Advertising\/Public Relations and in Spanish, Ashley Counahan is a passionate advocate for language education, intercultural communication, and cultural awareness. As a bilingual English and Speaking speaker, Ashley is pursuing a career in education, and she shared her inspiring story for this month&#8217;s &#8220;Language Proficiency Is Your Superpower&#8221; feature. In Ashley&#8217;s words, \u201cBeing bilingual has enriched my life in so many ways and has opened my eyes to new cultural perspectives! I look forward to building out my career, teaching others the irreplaceable value of the Spanish language and culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read Ashley&#8217;s story here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Language-Superpower-Magazine-Ashley_Counahan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Language-Superpower-Magazine-Ashley_Counahan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A graduate of the University of Tampa with dual BA degrees in Advertising\/Public Relations and in Spanish, Ashley Counahan is a passionate advocate for language education, intercultural communication, and cultural awareness. As a bilingual English and Speaking speaker, Ashley is pursuing a career in education, and she shared her inspiring story for this month&#8217;s &#8220;Language [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[154,249,27,155,113],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bilingual-professionals","tag-bilingualism","tag-language-is-your-superpower","tag-language-proficiency","tag-multilingualism","tag-opi"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2843,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions\/2843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}