NY Inner City Students Learning Japanese Language

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From the Japan Times:

When students enter Keiko Takenaka's 10th-grade classroom, they say "ohayo", but taking their seats, they chat among themselves in a mixture of English and Spanish until class begins.

At New Heights Academy, a charter school in upper Manhattan, the students are part of a unique program where Japanese is the only foreign language offered. With a student body that is 82 percent Hispanic, many of the students will be trilingual before they graduate from high school.

Full Article: Inner-city students in N.Y. learn Japanese as their third language | Japan Times