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MIN-MIN LIANG: My
name is Min-Min Liang.

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I'm from Taiwan.

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And I'm a Chinese
lecturer at MIT.

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And I graduated my
college in Taiwan.

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And I came here to
the United States

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to get my master's
degree at Harvard.

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And after the master program,
I went to UPenn for the Ph.D.

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That's where I started
teaching Chinese,

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because I have a
scholarship there.

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And even though my major
is Chinese literature,

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but I find teaching Chinese
is really fun and stimulating.

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And my total years of
teaching is 21 years.

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And I find it interesting,
because every school

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is different.

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And so I constantly have
to adapt my strategy

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to a different
group of students.

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And I find that's very exciting.

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It's not things so mundane.

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It's so routine.

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In that way, there's
a routine there,

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but you have to
change up according

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to the audience, the group.