Many people in Japan blame the education system for their inability to communicate well in English, even though they have studied the language for years in school.
But Kanto International Senior High School in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, is trying to correct this problem. It believes people can drastically improve their English by training their ear muscles.
The school introduced a teaching system in April called the Tomatis method, which was developed by French Dr. Alfred Tomatis (1920-2001), who concluded that every language has a unique frequency span.
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