Nintendo DS teaches English in school

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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 isnt just fun and games anymore as the portable video game machine ...
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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