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Learn English with Obama

At the book store last night this book caught my eye: The book [link on DangDang] claims to teach English using nine of Obama’s famous speeches, teaching you how to speak English like Obama. It even comes with an MP3 CD of audio content.... ...full story at Sinosplice

from Sinosplice on Sat, May 23 2009

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