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TAKAIKO AIKAWA: So on campus,
besides our language classes,

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our students have
some opportunities

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to interact with native
Japanese speakers,

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or so we have lots of events.

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One major event is lunch table.

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That is actually sponsored
by MIT Japan, which actually

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is a program that sends
a lot of our students

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to Japan as internship.

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So together with
MIT Japan program,

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we host a Japanese
lunch table once a week,

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so that students go to
lunch table and then

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the native speakers of Japanese,
especially the Japanese Wives

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Club at MIT, they really
support this activity.

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We also have a
Japan at MIT event.

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This event is also in
collaboration with MIT Japan.

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And at the beginning
of each semester,

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we kind of have a big
party, together with sushi,

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and then we introduce
language program.

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At the same time, we introduce
a lot of Japan-related culture

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courses.

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And then we invite
Japanese Wives

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Club so that students
can be exposed

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to cultural activities,
such as tea ceremony

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or how to wear kimono,
those kind of things.