At a unique Sydney bookshop, multilingual storytellers are keeping languages alive

More than 180 languages are spoken in the Sydney suburb of Fairfield, with creative storytellers at one of its bookshops ensuring many are passed down to the next generation.

Jasmine Baker loves to tell stories, but it wasn’t always that way. 

“I speak Arabic and English. I come from a background where my parents speak five languages,” she tells SBS.

The 29-year-old is studying early childhood education and works part-time performing stories to children in more than one language. 

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