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While studying abroad in Italy, Jennifer Buono fell in love with the country’s language and culture. That experience eventually led to a career teaching Italian. Today, Buono is entering her 11th year teaching Italian at York Community High School in Elmhurst, but Italian wasn’t the language that first captured her interest. Growing up in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, Buono was drawn to languages from a young age. With only Spanish and French offered at her middle school and Glenbard South High School, she chose the latter. “I have always loved languages, and as a young child I was very interested in …