Nintendo DS teaches English in school

June 26, 2008 By YURI KAGEYAMA , AP Business Writer
Nintendo DS teaches English in school

A seventh-grader at the all-girls Tokyo Joshi Gakuen, writes an Alphabet on screen of Nintendo DS game console during an English class in Tokyo, Thursday, June 26, 2008. The Nintendo DS isn't just fun and games anymore as the portable video game machine gets used as a key tool in an English class at the Japanese junior high school.(AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)

(AP) -- The Nintendo DS isn't just fun and games anymore for English students at Tokyo's Joshi Gakuen all-girls junior high school. The portable video game console is now being used as a key teaching tool, breaking with traditional Japanese academic methods.



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bredmond
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i hope they come out with a version targeted to native chinese speakers who want to learn english. That way, i can give it my students here in china who always ask how to improve their spoken english. i never have a good answer because television programming and movies are not always about dialogue, and comic books in english are not very available here.

Anyway, come to think of it, i would like something like this to help me learn chinese.
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well, I suppose this explains engrish.com :)
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