With the possibility of English lessons spreading into all the nation's schools, elementary school teachers are being forced to study the language -- and some are struggling.
The Arakawa Ward board of education in Tokyo began an eight-hour English course for all their elementary school teachers last spring.
Smiling self-consciously, 20 elementary school teachers tried hard to speak English in their weekly one-hour lesson.
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