Don't worry about grammar; listen more and enjoy speaking.
That is the mantra of newly introduced English lessons at public elementary schools across the country, seemingly poles apart from the goals of traditional English education in Japan.
Beginning with this school year, which got under way in April, some schools began teaching English as a program of international understanding in "comprehensive studies" classes.
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