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Title: Takashi Matsui Interview I
Narrator: Takashi Matsui
Interviewer: Elmer Good
Location: Seattle, Washington
Date: October 29, 1997
Densho ID: denshovh-mtakashi-01-0013

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EG: So how did you, how did you experience the university? What happened for you at UW?

TM: Oh, the university wasn't easy, except certain mechanical things, like physics and math and accounting, which I had studied. Others, like literature, you know, trying to read, for a foreigner to read Ivanhoe and some other books, it wasn't easy. And composition wasn't too hard but my paper used to come back with, full of corrections. [Laughs]

EG: Did you have to do it over?

TM: Yes.

EG: And send it back, make the corrections and turn it back in again. That's the way to learn English, though, isn't it?

TM: Yes.

EG: How did your English progress?

TM: Oh, I, I believe it improved. So in the end, I had less and less difficulty.

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