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NY Inner City Students Learning Japanese Language -
03-06-2009, 02:01 PM
From the Japan Times:
When students enter Keiko Takenaka's 10th-grade classroom, they say "ohayo", but taking their seats, they chat among themselves in a mixture of English and Spanish until class begins.
At New Heights Academy, a charter school in upper Manhattan, the students are part of a unique program where Japanese is the only foreign language offered. With a student body that is 82 percent Hispanic, many of the students will be trilingual before they graduate from high school.
Full Article: Inner-city students in N.Y. learn Japanese as their third language | Japan Times |
