LAKELAND, Fla. — Viva Polk magazine is giving readers the opportunity to learn English through its pages. This year, the magazine made the transition to become a bilingual magazine, while still preserving Spanish stories.

What You Need To Know • Viva Polk magazine is now bilingual • Both languages are offered in the same article side by side • The magazine also underlines words that are similar in both English and Spanish so that readers can learn

Teresa Martinez is an educator at heart. That passion to teach is evident within the pages of her magazine, Viva Polk.

As the editor-in-chief and publisher, she says the magazine is a source of education for many.

“An informed community is an educated community; it is a better community,“ she said.

The first edition was printed in 2019

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