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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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- My grandma's old bible
-My old English notebook from high school
- My college counselor
-Google search on my phone
-My old tutoring job in high school
-My older cousin
-my journal

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-My grandparents
-Russian school
-Mrs.Cheng, my English and History Teacher
-Scrabble games with my family
-Reading to my younger brother
-Piano lessons with my neighbor
-Typing board games with friends
-Web games that taught me how to spell
-Lego's
-Hebrew School
-My mom

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- My parents speaking to me
- My grandparents speaking to me in Chinese
- TV shows I watched on Qubo
- Ms. David (high school English teacher)
- My best friend
- Sunday school
- My dad reading books to me
- Piano lessons when I was in elementary school
- Playing sports
- Disney Channel

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- My high school Spanish teacher
- watching Dora the Explorer
- my friends
- JROTC
- kindergarten (reading and speaking)
- typing games
- reading out loud in class
- being a translator for my parents
- practicing Spanish when going to Mexico
- playing Scrabble

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-Dora the Explorer (I would watch it everyday before school. I connected with it a lot because she spoke Spanish)
-Catholic School
-My older brother, Daniel
-Magic Treehouse books
-Judy Moody books
-My freshman English teacher, Ms. Shaw
-My parents
-Reading during mass
-Spelling bee in elementary school

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-Reading comics with my mom
-Typing classes in school
-My grandpa teaching me about sports/being my basketball coach
-My grandma giving me puzzle books
-video games in game chat
-texting friends
-Discovery Channel/Animal Planet shows
-Greek Mythology books
-My friends
-Youtube channels

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- My parents
- Angels Wings Foundation (scholarship)
- Ms. Geva (sophomore year english teacher)
- Puzzle books
- My chinese tutor in elementary
- My siblings
- Study / Educational youtubers
- Kumon and another math tutor school
- typing instructor website
- multiple video games
- vanden high school
- solano community college
- mangas / comics / animes (specifically Doraemon)
- friends and other relatives

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- My high school English teacher Ms Tirona
- Boy Scouts
- Andrew Loomis Books
- My art teacher Mr Stacy
- Video games
- Books by Dmitry Glukhovsky
- My Parents
- Teletubbies
- Comic books
- My high school Spanish teacher Mr Balset
- The internet
- My circle of friends I knew since first grade
- Brainstorm Burbank (Art School)
- Old Movies

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- My english teachers
- school (classes)
- books
- friends
- animations
- cartoons
- dictionary
- encyclopedia (wikipedia)
- Computer (internet/online stuff)
- Youtube
- Movies
- Songs

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-watching movie and tv shows (I actually learn english by watching tv show “the office”)

-reading english bible

-my parents

-texting with my ex girlfriend

-playing sports( football, baseball…)

- my best friend cole

-my journal

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- Friends
- Reading in class
- Chinese class
- PBS Shows
- YouTube
- Different movies and tv shows
- Toys
- Puzzles
- online dictionary and thesaurus
- Books

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- my parents
- my middle school track and field coach
- my siblings
- books
- orchestra teacher
- best friends
- youtube
- disney and nick tv shows
- my aunt who is like a second mother to me
-mulan

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- My grandparents
- My parents
- Filipino TV shows
- My 10th grade English teacher
- Sesame Street
- Youtubers I watched as a kid
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid books
- Disney movies
- My basketball coaches
- PBS Kids shows

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1.  my dad (bringing me to the library)
2. My high school councilor
3. Helping out my immigrant parents with writing business emails, especially with grammar
4. Kumon
5. Dora the explorer
6. senior year English teacher
7. constantly texting my friends
8. June B. Jones
9. taking drama in elementary school
10. crossword books

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- Rick Riordan books
- Kumon
- text in video games
- guides and wiki pages on video games
- YouTube
- reading online threads about other people
- dad speaking to me in Portuguese
- online wiki pages for education stuff
- TV shows when I was little
- Friends

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- My parents
- PBS Kids
- Disney Channel
- Cousins
- Teachers
- School Counselors (ELL)
-Sunday school
- Friends
- Astrology Books
-Computer Games (Putt-Putt Travels Through Time)

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-PBS Kids: Super Why, Martha Speaks, Word World, Cyberchase, Electric Company, etc

-Translator for immigrant parents

-Scrabble/word games on phone

-Speaking in vietnamese

-Percy Jackson books

-Youtube

-Puzzles

-Wattpad

-Competitive friends who pushed me to get a better grade

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- my parents
- my grandparents who taught me dialect
- watching Disney movies (how I learned English as a kid)
- Batman series
- Youtubers
- two best friends in high school
- my high school homestay
- playing golf
- fifth grade Mandarin teacher
- American Literature teacher

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- PBS kids
- parents
- Disney Channels
- older brother
- Youtube
- novels
- teacher
- friends
-video games
- comic books