How does one force an elementary school child to study or to master a foreign language at such a young age?
Ask Wakaba Yoshida, 40, and the answer is quite simple: Never try to discipline a child to begin with.
Yoshida's daughter, Ayumi, 11, beat out 1,600 competitors to be crowned winner of a national English speech contest held in Tokyo earlier this month.
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