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As a winner of the NSLI- Y Scholarship in high school, and then the Critical Language Scholarshipin colleI lived in China for two summers with host families, studying Mandarin for nine hours a day. Tack on to that theapproximately 2,000 classroom hours I spent learming Mandarin as an undergraduate, and it seems fair to say that asmall fortune of resources has been invested in my Mandarin ability