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Dear Mai Lao-shi! thank you for your guidance and kindness during my time at Carleton. I was certainly not the best at Chinese, but your patience really meant something to…

Hansell-sensei, Thank you so much for everything you have taught me and shared with me over my time at Carleton. You have taught two of my favorite classes at Carleton,…

Hansell-sensei, Let me say congratulations! You were always a wonderful professor who shared my personal passion for Asian languages and cultures. Taking so many classes from you and having you…

Dear Mai laoshi, Thank you for your guidance, support, and faith in me. If it were for you, I will not be where I am today. It was the summer…

Dear Professor Mark, When I think of some of the most memorable moments from my time at Carleton, it’s my time spent in your classes, even though waking up for…

Mark, Even though we have only seen each other occasionally when you recently walked through Anderson, I remember fondly of all the times I had contact with you though the…

Mark, I learned some of the most interesting and meaningful things I’ve ever learned about language in Historical Linguistics—tonogenesis still blows my mind! Thank you for your warmth, patience, and…

Each time I unpack the memories of our language faculty and staff excursions to set up the Language Center in 1990, you are there beside us. You’ve reminded me time…

I still remember 麥老師’s first class period of Chinese 101, where he proved to us that “If a billion people can learn Chinese, so can you.” Now, granted we were…

Congratulations Mai Lao-shi! Chinese was one of my favorite studies at Carleton. Even though I only took 3 terms (in 1992), I absorbed enough that when I used it in…