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Yan Wang

Professor Yan Wang came to Carthage College in Fall 2008, after graduating from the department of East Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

"As a non-Japanese speaker, I started my Japanese leaning journey back in 1989 in Beijing Foreign Studies University, China," she said. "There, I received my first MA degree in Japanese culture. Since then, I have been teaching Japanese as an assistant professor at my alma mater in China, studying cultural-anthropology at University of Tokyo in Japan, and teaching Japanese as a teaching assistant while pursuing my Ph.D degree of Japanese linguistics in UW-Madison.

"No matter where I was and what I was doing, for the past 20 years, I never stopped my Japanese study. It was very fortunate for me to be able to continue my Japanese education career at Carthage. I am so happy to have this opportunity to help my students as a Japanese teacher as well as a 先輩（senior) of Japanese learner!"

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