# @rhodeislandcollege on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CPqimWjLAyz
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/74940668-rhodeislandcollege-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-06-03T16:26:49.000+00:00

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These three award-winning #Classof2021 graduates are prepared to take on the world – through language. Joshua Abreu, Lilly Ngolvorarath and Anthony Diebold are all #worldlanguages students with bright futures an already impressive track records. 
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Abreu is first RIC student ever chosen to participate in the prestigious U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship program, an eight-to-10-week venture that selects only 10 percent of applicants from undergraduate and graduate programs to study one of 15 critical languages. He would have been heading to Brazil, if not for the pandemic; instead he will be participating in the program virtually.
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Diebold is heading to Taiwan, where he was selected to be an English teaching assistant in the equally distinguished Fulbright Fellowship program.
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Ngolvorarath was a co-recipient, along with Diebold, of the 2021 Katherine Murray Prize, which honors students who embody the qualities and values that Murray, a former RIC professor in the Department of Secondary Education, sought to instill in her teacher education students. She and Abreu have plans to teach English in Spain later this year.
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These distinguished World Languages grads agree that learning multiple languages is critical for success. While an estimated 60 percent of the world speaks at least two languages, in America that number is precipitously lower, with less than 20 percent speaking a second language. “From business to accounting, in virtually any field, the ability to know languages sets you apart from others,” says Abreu.
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