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ABC Trumpets How Japanese Use Obama to Learn English

Duration: 2 minutes and 25 seconds
Country: Colombia
Language: English
Producer: BBC News
Director: EditorBlogger.com
Views: 210 (54 embedded)
Posted by: editorblogger on Nov 16, 2009

After clips of adult students saying “Yes, we can,” reporter Clarissa Ward explained from Tokyo: “This is the Obama workshop at the Kaplan English School in Japan. Every week, as many as 200 students attend” where “they learn the President's speeches line by line, reciting them to their teacher.” That teacher seems to have a preference for those on the left, as Ward relayed how he “has also used speeches by Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy for his classes, but he says his students are particularly inspired by the message of Mr. Obama.”

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