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Language Education in Japan & the US 日本と米国の言語教育 in English & Japanese

Learn Languages with Steve Kaufmann

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Reading Books Is Underestimated

I'm a great believer in reading books every language I've learned when I can read a book from cover to cover That's a major major achievement and I often hear people say oh I can read so well But what do you read you read newspaper? Read a book, you know people who read well. With link because with link You can actually look them up and they you know develop lists of words and how many words you've learned the whole function. Reading is under estimated And I'm not just reading short articles, but actually reading books  in terms of getting the language into your brain,. Yeah Japan There are people who learn English to a very high level of proficiency in Japan isn't

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