Japanese Students Learning English With DS
- October 23rd, 2006
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The Nintendo DS is now being used in Japan as a study aid for high schoolers learning English. Students use for 10 minutes at the beginning of class DS software that includes over 3000 English words. By conducting class in this fashion, students receive concise language instruction that is free of human error.
It still baffles me why there is so little emphasis on foreign languages in the States. I didn’t have a foreign language until the very end of high school and even then, it was a pathetic excuse for a class. Schools in the states should do something like this.
Elodie (Who am I?)
1 year ago
why there is so little emphasis on foreign languages?
For the same reason there is so little mention of anything foreign that does not relate to the US. The US finds itself so great that it sees everyone else as subpar and as such cannot be bothered to teach anything about other places. (for that matter it can’t even be bothered teaching about itself–I’ve talked to more than one person who was surprised that hawaii is not all mud huts and grass skirts!)
LKM (Who am I?)
1 year ago
This was released in Europe, too. I’d love to see a “Learning Japanese” version, though.