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Mini-vignettes of one lang experiences wit
By Rachel Y
The screen goes blank as the last threads of “See you soon!” echo through my headphones. My knee fidgets as I watch the whirling icon, my computer preparing to enter the new chat room. Who will it be? Will there be one or two, maybe three students? Where are they from? Do I know enough slang for this? Questions zip around my mind as I force my knee to still and focus instead on the faint breeze from my oscillating floor fan. I’m an English teacher, this is no different than what I usually do. It’s fine. It’s exciting. It’s an adventure. Suddenly two expectant faces peer out at me from my screen. “Hi!” we all exclaim together, waving, and it begins.
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He flips excitedly through the pages of t book.” The vivid bright orange of the cov Dr. Suess popular in Japan?”, I ask. He p he doesn’t think so. “Harapekomushi is p “Oh, The Very Hungry Caterpillar! That’s reading it when I was little,” I exclaim. He children’s books, a nostalgic air about him, on his phone. Bringing our attention bac Suess is famous for writing with rhyming w ‘their’ and
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