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Oakville Beaver | Thursday, May 25, 2023 | 22 SUBMIT YOUR LETTER TO THE EDITOR TODAY! on aiHalto mane NOTICE OF CONSTRUCTION Watermain and Main on Lees Lane and Secord Avenue Ward 2, in the Town of Oakville PR-3314-23 May 2023 Summer 2024 Project number: Scheduled start date: Scheduled completion date: For more information about Regional improvement projects: + visit halton.ca; + sign up to receive email notice and updates; or + email accesshalton@halton.ca or call 311. ARS Building Constructo A Better Halton Enjoy fun for the family at Paramedic Day Join us in celebration of Halton paramedics, and all that they do to keep our community safe and healthy, during our upcoming Paramedic Day. This event will be taking place on May 27, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., rain or shine, at Woodlands Operations Centre (1179 Bronte Road) in Oakville. The event will be closing out Paramedic Services Week and will feature fun activities for the entire family to Gary Carr enjoy including climbing on board emergency vehicles, trying on paramedic gear, regional Chair learning the basics of CPR and meeting members of our paramedic team. To learn more about Paramedic Day or Halton Region's Paramedic Services, visit halton.ca. Meetings at Halton Region Regional Council meetings are taking place through web conferencing until further notice. insidehalton.com Videos will be posted to halton.ca. Please contact us, as soon as possible, if you have any accessibility needs at Halton Region events or meetings. COMMUNITY Graham Paine/Metroland Jack Mallette has a funny, self-deprecating way of learning languages, which has earned him three million TikTok followers. A SOCIAL MEDIA MILESTONE UNIVERSITY STUDENT HITS THREE MILLION TIKTOK FOLLOWERS Jack Mallette's lifelong fascination with languag- es and music has catapult- oa him into a TikTok sen- at ohackstanleymallette now Y has three million fol- ONT nave always had a self deeply immersed in the culture," said the 20- year-old Oakville resident and University of Toronto finance student In his ‘Souty postings, created with girlfriend Aneta Podolak, viewers ee Mallette earnestly try- ing to learn the language in his animated, comical, self- 'deprecating w: ray, mak- ing the videos “entertain- ing and engaging." "We believe that learn- ing a language should be fun and enjoyable, and we try to convey that message in every video we create," said Mallette. “We believe that learning a language should be fun and enjoyable, and we try to convey that message in every video we create,” - Jack Mallette Podolak is Polish and in an effort to help Mallette communicate i he! parents, she began teach- i language and subsequently they started sharing videos of the les- sons. "Then my girlfriend posted a video of me looking like Draco Malfoy (from Harry Potter) and it blew up. To take advantage of the momentum I posted seven to nine Draco-relat- ed videos a day for around six months." othr one million follow- many of them from outside North America — he began making videos of himself learning other lan- guages and cultures, he said. “This was a huge second wave of traction," he said. “Funnily enough I'm re- ally only fluent in English (currently), yet I spend all my arning other re gtanes for TRTOK. im mainly focused o1 ing” Polish Se ently ut my time on TikTok I've made videos learning Tagalog, Dutch, German, Russian, and Spanish." The majority of his fol- lowers are from Poland, said Mallette. “Most of them are giving me new word suggestions and songs to learn. They also give me a lot of feed- back on words I'm pro- nouncing well, and horri- bly." He believes his TikTok appeal is that he's a west- ern world content creator who is actively trying to learn about other coun- tries’ cultures. "I find that other coun- tries heavily consume where they aren't re- presented, and this is a way for them to feel a part of the content Iam making because they are essential- ly teaching me it."