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When Jake Jackson read that he would be serving a Hmong-speaking mission in Minnesota for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he was confused. He had never heard of Hmong. He was even more puzzled when he learned that there was a Hmong community near his hometown of Delta, Utah.

“My mom grew up with friends whose families had resettled in the area after the Vietnam War,” says Jackson. He is now a junior studying international relations and Hmong at BYU.

In addition to teaching Hmong 101, Jackson works as a research assistant, translating interviews on Hmong culture and economy. His language skills have led him to become a certified interpreter for the US Department of Justice and an interpreter for general conference sessions of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Jackson is one of more than 20,000 thousand BYU students (more than 60 percent) who speak a second language—remarkably, more than 121 languages are spoken on campus.

To read more about Jake and other students in Humanities please visit Educational Excellence: Learning and Teaching Languages | Philanthropies.

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