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HAOHSIANG LIAO: My
name is Haohsiang Liao.

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I'm the senior lecturer
directing the Chinese Language

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Program here at MIT.

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And since I've been here, I've
been in charge of Chinese 101

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to Chinese 104 and
that's basically

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the beginning level to the
intermediate level of Chinese.

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So my interest in
teaching languages

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started when I was a
grad student in Taiwan.

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That was this time
that Taiwan started

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to establish its first grad
school of teaching Chinese

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as a second language,
which was about 1994.

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So I was a grad
student there and that

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was the time I started
to develop my interest

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in teaching foreigners Chinese.

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So I was there for
three years and they

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got me an opportunity to do an
internship at Williams College.

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So I was at Williams for
one year and at Williams,

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that was the eye-opening
experience for me

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and that was really the moment
I decided to devote myself

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into this profession.