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1. Huntington Library and Gardens (in Pasadena, CA)
2. Archdiocese of Los Angeles (the Catholic Church of Los Angeles)
3. Girl's State
4. Homeboy Industries (Boyle Heights, CA)
5. The 1984 Olympics (held in Los Angeles)
6. My mother (with me at the Huntington Library below!)
7. My older sister (we played school)
8. Learning video games at my public library you got to play for FREE on the brand new Apple 2E computers donated by a new little-known company called Apple Computers (Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? & Oregon Trail)
10. Public library (summer reading program where reading got you free pizza points!)
11. S.E. Hinton
12. Weekly piano lessons with Mrs. Crider
13. Dr. Williams (favorite undergraduate professor)

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1. My brother's Godfather, Lambros (told us stories & sang traditional Greek songs)

2. Playing Scrabble as a kid

3. Being translator for my immigrant parents, brother (before he learned English), and grandmother

4. basketball (coach gave us notebooks to learn plays)

5. Practicing my French when we would visit family in Montreal

6. Greek School (church)

7. Greek Mythology (giant book I read over and over)

8. Dr. Paul Goldstene (college)

9. Human Services 45 (an elective course where we tutored lementary school kids in reading)

10. Used to play 'school' with my neighbor, who was 1 year older than me. I was the student and she was the teacher (learned years later I was doing her homework)

11. Sesame Street & The Electric Company on Saturday mornings

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My grandfather's almanac

Full House (Thing before Fuller House)

Hollywood movie series on Friday nights (in Japan)

Essay writing contests (many Japanese school children participated in these as part of school curricula)

Friends from home

UCSB

My child's Spanish-English bilingual school

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-2 Grandmothers (pictured below at my college graduation) and their full journals and bookshelves
-being the only child meant being included in conversations as a peer, not a child
-community conversations
-Judy Blume
-Dr. Betsy Watson
-Jody Woodbury (HS English teacher) and Carl Woodbury (HS Gov't teacher)
-Thomas, my grandmother's Siamese cat (aka my best student)
-Reading Rainbow
-Sweet Valley High

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Eye exams
Watching older sister record herself reading books
First grade reading circles
Moving to Australia in 6th grade and mispronouncing words when reading aloud in class
Teaching my daughter to read
Friends
My uncle Bob's home library

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1. My Asian parents (always pick me up 1 hour late every day in middle school which forces me to be stuck in the library)
2. My parents again ( being their translator for mail)
2. My 4th and 5th grade teacher ( I had him for 2 years)
3. Bridges Academy Middle School Library and the nice librarian.
4. Tully Library
5. Wonder By R. J. Palacio
6. Anime ( reading subtitles)
7. PBS kid shows

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1. both my parents (would read me stories all the time, tell stories of from when they were a kid, and make up stories when I would ask)
2. My 10th grade math teacher
3. my 10th grade english teacher
4. being an only child meant that I interacted mostly with adults
5. my mother being obsessed with the thesaurus
6. my parents bookshelves and collections
7. Canterwood Crest, The Famous Five, The Secret Benedict Society, and miss Peregrines home for peculiar children
8. National Geographic
9. summer reading competitions
10. Seattle Public Library

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1. Job (work agenda, meeting agenda, workflow, workplan, etc.)
2. Email/Social Media
3. My grandmother (told me stories)
4. My dad (translate documents for him; sharing his personal views)
5. Tuesday's Library (went to the library in middle school every Tuesday)
6. Online Chinese novels
7. Local/International News

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1. My parents (needing to translate for them anywhere we went)
2. French teacher (speaking to us only in French, and us needing to respond only in French)
3. Playing the clarinet (having to read notes and understanding what it meant musically)
4. Foreign tv shows (reading the subtitles in order to understand, while grasping some words and their meaning from that certain language)
5. The lunar chronicles (one of my favorite book serious)
6. Siblings (being the oldest I would have to teach/correct my younger siblings in how to read and write)
7. Local public library (you could get prizes for reading certain books, and would also get a cool bag to put your books in)
8. Being bilingual (having to be able to be fluent in both languages without sounding foreign, and only being able to speak a certain language at a certain time)

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1. My mom (always bought me books and encouraged reading)

2. My cousin (would recommend and lend me books)

3. Book fairs

4. Piano teacher

5. Boys and Girls club

6. School library

7. Subtitles of foreign movies

8. 8th grade English teacher

9. Friends (recommend books)

10. 4th grade spelling bee

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1. my parents
2. my classmates (we would trade/lend books)
3. anime/kdramas (subtitles)
4. karaoke
5. my friends
6. PBS
7. music
8. youtube
9. public library

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1. My parents (always encourage me to read more)
2. My high school English teacher Mrs. G (she recommended a lot of interesting books for me to read and she also taught me how to write)
3. Public library in my hometown
4.School library
5. Reading APPs
6. A magazine called Readers (Readers magazine mainly publishes wonderful articles that have been published in other newspapers and books, including literature, art, reviews, stories, life related science fiction, and psychological counseling. When you see an interesting article, you can also submit it to this editorial board for recommendation.)

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1. My parents(alwayas asking me to read more books)
2. My parents(asking me to help them translate everything related to English, such as documents or emails)
3. My sister(who reads much more often than me and gives me pressure as she is quite knowledgeable based on what she has read)
4. Ms. Roseburrough(my most importnat literature teacher in high school who reignites my passion for reading)
5. Video games(without translation thus force me to read English)
6. Video games(about mythology, history, and other types)
7. Movies(especially the ones I watched in the US which are without subtitles)
8. Book: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

9. High School Psychology Club
10. Animations
11. Video websites(such as Youtube and Bilibili)

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1. My Mom always reading a book
2. My sister who always wanted me to be apart of her music videos
3. Plays & Musicals
4. Choir/music
5. My 5th grade teacher
6. My friend Maggie
7. TV
8. My grandma always filling our house with books she has read and wants us to read

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1.  my parents who tried to cultivate reading ability when I was 3 years old.
2. my Chinese teachers who taught me writing and reading.
3. play card games like quizlet on the internet.
4. dictionaries.
5. word learning app.
6. my history teacher in middle school.
7. english b teacher from my high school who taught me to revise my essay.
8. magazines called Miss. and Yilin that was published during my primary and middle school. I learned many good expressions and ideas from them.

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1. my parents who pushed me to read and write a lot
2. my grandma who is a writer/journalist
3. piano teacher
4. other music teachers
5. long list of bands/music that influence me
6. traveling a lot, writing down what I saw
7. Twitter

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1.My siblings always read books
2.Anime
3.Music
4.Wendy Ho (ASA teacher)
5.Art exhibits
6.sports
7.journaling/writing letters
8.Youtube
9.Video games (legend of Zelda) (dialogue)
10.movies

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1. My parents: sang to me and read me books
2. My 4th grade teacher: always encouraged me to read more challenging books
3. Super Why
4. Word Girl
5. Elmo: taught me letters
6. Filipino teleseryes: helped me retain knowledge on my native language
7. Music: listening to music from around the world
8. Mr Pierce: my senior year English teacher who helped me improve my writing and
9. All of my piano teachers
10. The Boxcar Children: one of my favorite series when I was younger

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1. TV shows that I grew up watching such as; Sid the Science Kid, Super Why, Word World, Little Einsteins, Martha Speaks, and Mickey Mouse.
2. Books that I enjoyed reading as a kid; Magic tree house, The Boxcar Children, and Dear Dumb Diary.
3. Book fairs at school
4. Music not only in English but also in my family's native language
5. My siblings would discourage me from reading because it was not something they enjoyed
6. Movies
7. High school daily journal entries
8. My 6th grade teacher had me read books that were at my reading level which discouraged my reading since those books I found boring.

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1.My father reading newspaper
2.Reddit
3.TOEFL test
4.My high school writing teacher
5.High school library
6.English song
7.Doctor Who
8.Khan academy

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1. School book fairs
2. My mom
3. My cousins
4. Magic Tree House
5. Grandpa's personal library
6. Manga
7. My brother because we competed to see who could read more every week
8. My first grade teacher because she introduced me to many books.
9. Micky Mouse Clubhouse
10. Growing up and having my Aunts always send me books

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1. My dad always listening to Indian news
2. Go; Diego, Go!
3. My childhood bookshelf, containing many easy to read books like Geronimo Stilton and Judy Blume
4. My 4th grade teacher, making us find 5 new vocabulary words each week
5. Reading subtitles on the hindi movies we would watch often
6. Emulating my brothers speech habits
7. Learning different tactics during Soccer practices
8. At the public library, where I'd check out books from time to time
9. My mom reading me hindu books before bed

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- My teachers
- local library
- parents
- television/media
- siblings
- sunday school