Name: Sally Mizoshiri
Citizenship: Australian
Occupation: Japanese Teacher, North Sydney Girls’ High School
Location: North Sydney Girls’ High School, New South Wales, Australia
In Year 5 Sally Mizoshiri started to learn Japanese at Danebank School in Hurstville, a multicultural suburb of Sydney. Some years later, she visited Japan on an exchange program, organised by Hurstville City Council to Shiroishi, and decided back then that she was going to become an expert in the Japanese language in the future. After double-majoring in law and Japanese at UNSW in Sydney, she moved to Japan for work. Initially, she taught English in Wakayama prefecture and later worked for the
Osaka Prefectural Government. Sally moved back to Australia in 2009 and today she is an enthusiastic Japanese teacher at
North Sydney Girls’ High School, an
academically selective, public high school in North Sydney. She is determined to show the next generation of Australians the beauty of the Japanese language. In this interview, Sally tells us about the joys of teaching Japanese and shares her experience of transnational marriage and language learning.