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  "textContent": "Initially inspired by anime and manga, Wang enrolled in first-year Japanese. In the two years since, though, her path to fluency has been far from straightforward.\n\nThe post Two steps forward and one step back: My Japanese language learning journey  appeared first on The Stanford Daily.",
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