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1.Gates tutor center
2.bigbang theory
3.Rick and Morty
4. star war series
5.church
6.rainbow 6
7.UCD
8. my sister.
9. The Weekend
10.Justin Bieber
11.economics magazine
12. BHS (beckman high school)
13. social media.
14.netflix
15. Studio Ghibli

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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.

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-Family encouragement

-Book Loving Sister

-Ivy & Bean book series

-The Land of Stories book series

-Church
-Writing my own creative stories

-Senior Year of High School English Teachers

-Social Media (i.e. Book Tok)

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1. My mother, who began familiarizing me with the english language through online practice in early elementary school to avoid later struggle (Spanish was my first language)

2. Starfall.com (children's website that teaches basic academic skills)

3. abcmouse.com (children's website that teaches basic academic skills)

4. pbskids, especially Wild Kratts! (children's site/television programming aimed towards
entertainment/basic academic learning)

5. cbeebies (children's television channel that educates/entertains)

6. My 4th grade teacher, Mrs. Billman (encouraged me to work towards veterinary medicine and still supports me to this day)

7. My 6th grade teacher, Mr. Martel (provided me with academic resources/ exposed me to a variety of cultures/supports my academic progress to this day)

8. My 8th and 11th grade History teacher, Mrs. White (transferred from my middle school to my high school and so I had her for both years), who has provided me with academic resources and support since middle school

9. The Inheritance Cycle, a book series written by Christopher Paolini

10. The Magic Tree House, a book series written by Mary Pope Osborn

11. Spirit Animals, a book series written by several authors

12. Music (listening to songs in both English and Spanish to maintain fluency)

13. Social media/apps/ internet (access to specific information)

14. Visiting Mexico and connecting with my roots and maintain Spanish fluency

15. Volleyball (practiced leadership and teamwork)

16. Anime (has helped me decompress before/during/after stressful academic/nonacademic events)

17. My 4 dogs (have helped me decompress before/during/after stressful academic/nonacademic events)

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1) My older sister, who I would always see reading different books, novels, and manga for fun.

2) Anime subtitles and manga

3) My best friend, who always recommended me new books even when I didn't ask her to.

4) Learning English when I was going into pre-school (Romanian was my first language)

5) Social Media

6) School, especially my old English teachers who inspired me

7) J. K. Rowling

8) My parents, when they were first learning English

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1. books
2. music of many languages
3. close high school friends
4. my artist older sister
5. parents and aunts (grew up around a lot of languages)
6. cartoons (Sesame Street, Zoboomafoo, Super Why)
7. nature documentaries
8. anime
9. school teachers
10. journaling
11. arts and crafts
12. YouTube

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-My mom reading to me
-My elementary library (I read a lot at this time)
-Translating for my mom and dad as well as showing them how to use technology
-Cartoons: Barbie, Dora the Explorer, Word Girl
-Magic Tree House book series
-Writing poems
-Listening to music
-Social Media

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1) My mother, she would always tell me her stories about her as a kid

2) My Speech and Debate Coach, he would tell us on ways we can succeed academically and in terms of a career

3) Anime/Manga, watched and read from when I was really young, taught me a lot of life lessons

4) Brother, always optimistic and taught me a lot about life

5) Ms. Izumikawa (Freshman English Teacher), taught me how to analyze texts and read efficiently

6) Social Media, let me connect with people and become friends

7) The News, helped me keep up with events and how the world is doing

8) Video Games

9) Light Novels

10) Classmates

11) Friends

12) Boys and Girls Club, Junior Staff/Tutor

13) Alhambra Church

14) Translation for my parents and business

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1. Sailor Moon manga
2. My mom recommending me books
3. Visiting the local library with my sister
4. Harry Potter and Percy Jackson
5. My grandpa writing Chinese poems
6. Reading Magic Tree House books with my friend
7. Church
8. Reading to my younger cousins
9. Book recommendations from social media and youtube
10.  Elementary school librarian

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1. My parents reading to me when I was a kid
2. Crosswords and Word Searches as a kid
3. Duolingo
4. Socratic Seminars
5. Lyrics from the various songs I listen to
6. Book club in middle and high school
7. Calabasas Library
8. My favorite movies
9. Favorite TV shows
10. My friends
11. Diary of a Wimpy Kid books
12. Youtube tutorials
13. DIY websites
14. Tutoring my little sister

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1. The church
2. Leigh Bardugo (my favorite author)
3. Ms. Selle (my HS English teacher)
4. My mother (speaks to me in Mandarin)
5. My grandfather (taught me how to write and read Mandarin)
6. DanTDM (I watched his videos growing up to improve my English)
7. Socratic Seminars
8. Declan McKenna (his lyrics are very thoughtful and taught me hidden meanings behind certain expressions)

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1. Anime and Cartoon

2. Elementary Librarian - Our class goes there once a week, and we would listen to her storytelling.

3. Middle school - My English teachers encouraged me to read books and they introduced me to many good books. (Ms. Hutter and Mr. Hurwitz)

4. Manga/ novel

5. Movie

6. Music - I like listening to music, and I would search for the lyrics to sing along with it.

7. Youtube

8. Being a Translator for my family

10. Video Game

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1) Mrs. Beyikian (High school English teacher)

2) Jane Austen

3) Beverly Cleary books

4) High School journalism class

5) Taylor Swift (specifically the evermore and folklore albums)

6) My grandparents (would always tell me about Lao folktales and legends)

7) Youtube

8) Cartoons - Ni Hao; Kai-lan, Adventure Time, and Power puff girls

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1. My mother, who has been reading to me since I was a fetus
2. My sister, who is an amazing writer and always critiqued my essays
3. Dora
4. Jenny Han (one of my favorite authors as a kid)
5. Ms. Plaga (my fourth and fifth grade teacher who encouraged me to write more)
6. Dr. Seuss
7. English Teachers
8. My grandfather, who encouraged me to memorize scriptures from the Bible
9. My best friend, who loves to journal

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1. Senior English teacher (Leadership Public School, always encouraging and provided great feedback)
2. Parents (bought tons of books for me as a child)
3. Older sister (gave book recommendations)
4. Webtoon/Manga
5. TV Series/Movies (always watched them with subtitles!)
6. PBS kids shows (a lot of these cartoons helped me learn new vocabulary words)
7. The media (apps, internet, news)
8. My friends
9. Video games
10. YouTube

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1. Dora the explorer
2. Full house and Fuller House
3. Dork Diaries
4. Judy Moody
5. Junie B. Jones
6. Amelia Bedelia
7. Super Why?
8. Read a thon sponsored by the public library
9. PBS kids
Clifford the big red dog
10. Raz-kids.com
11. Big Bang Theory
12. Tik Toks (booktalk) book recommendations

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1. As a child I liked reading a lot of rainbow magic books and now I love reading more poetry books like milk and honey and etc.
2. Social Media
3. My older sister
4. My friends
5. School, especially my 4th-5th grade teacher
6. Music
7. Volleyball
8. Dance

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1. my mom
2. music
3. school
4. my friends
5. ms. rhode
6. soccer
7. social media
8. public library
9. school library
10. movies/entertainment

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1. My grandmother's library (in Tashkent, Uzbekistan)

2. My school's library at TIS (Tashkent International School)

3. Video games

4. Youtube

5. KhanAcademy

6. Jeff Kinney

7.  Avatar: The Last Airbender

8.  Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

9.  My older cousin Sam

10. My tutor Alisher

11. Ernest Cline

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1.  Netflix

2. Disney plus movies

3. Youtube

4. My friend group, we communicate in english. Most of them are completely fluent in English. They are very nice and are willing to correct me if they notice I did something wrong, like the tenses and pronunciation.

5. Light novels and stories in Wattpad, I have not started reading any book from it, but I checked the intro of a few books, I would start reading after I got more freetime.

6. Canvas

7. Textbook

8. Teachers/ professor

9. Homework

10.  Quizzes and Exams

11.  Public libraries

12. My 11th grade english teacher

13. Roommate

14.  My uncle, who has English as his first language.

15.  Robotic club